NZ Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition 2010

NZWEA's Wind Energy Conference and Exhibition is your opportunity to meet decision makers and representatives from companies that are driving wind energy's growth.

It is the annual event for New Zealand's wind energy industry, organised by the industry for the industry.

And it's the only event where all industry participants gather in one place to share their experience and expertise in wind energy.

The industry now encompasses experience in the full range of project phases: from site assessment through to wind farm operation and maintenance. The conference is your opportunity to meet with all of these industry participants in one place. Over 270 delegates and more than 35 sponsors and exhibitors are expected to attend the 2010 Conference.

The 2010 conference will be held in Palmerston North, at the heart of New Zealand's existing wind energy development. It will open on the evening of Monday 29 March and run until Wednesday 31 March.

Convening the conference in Palmerston North gives us the opportunity to explore the benefits wind energy delivers to both the national and regional economies, as well as the specific policy and development issues industry players are dealing with.

Resource Management Act and electricity sector reforms, as well as the review of the ETS have created some uncertainty for the industry. The coming months will see some of this policy uncertainty resolved. The conference provides an exciting opportunity to discuss opportunities for wind energy in New Zealand in light of these policy developments.

To enable broad discussion we have scheduled parallel sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday that will cover a wide range of interest areas - including economics, planning and the RMA, ecological management, community relations, forecasting, modelling, transmission access and grid integration, the electricity market and operations and maintenance.