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UPDATE 25
The 58
th
meeting of the Executive Committee was
held in Stockholm, Sweden on 4-5 October, with
Kyriakos Maniatis as Chairman and John Tustin as
Secretary. The meeting was hosted by the Swedish
National Energy Administration. The Chairman
expressed the appreciation of the ExCo to Bjorn
Telenius for the excellent meeting and study tour
arrangements. Some of the outcomes of these events
are detailed below.
Changes in the Executive Committee
There was one new Member – Mr Andre Otto, South
Africa. New Alternate Members are – Mr Brendon
George, Australia; Dr Marcus Phago, South Africa;
Dr Per Nielsen, New Zealand; and Dr Maria
Fernandez Guitierrez, the European Commission.
Election of Chairman and Vice Chairman
Dr Kyriakos Maniatis of the European Commission
was re-elected Chairman and Dr J. Peter Hall of
Canada was re-elected Vice Chairman for 2007.
Technical Coordinator Position
At ExCo58 a new position, Technical Coordinator
(TC) was approved. The need for this position has
arisen from the rapidly increasing requests from the
Renewable Energy Working Party Secretariat at IEA
Headquarters and also to provide a coordinating
mechanism between the Tasks and the Executive
Committee and a link between Tasks for projects
where more than one Task is contributing. The TC
will report to the Chairman and primarily work on a
project-by-project basis. An important outcome is
expected to be a significant increase in the
development and momentum of policy-relevant
outputs from the Tasks.
Task Participation for 2006
Germany confirmed it will join Task 36. Task
participation by the Member Countries now totals 111.
Tasks in the New Triennium 2007-2009
A substantial part of the ExCo58 meeting was
dedicated to discussing and finalising the
programmes of work and budgets for the Tasks in the
new triennium. Apart from Tasks 29, 34 and 41
which were already approved, Tasks 30, 31, 32, 33,
36, 37, 38, 39, and 40 were all prolonged with new
programmes of work and renewed participation by
Member Countries. There was one new Task
approved which is detailed below. There will be 13
Tasks in the upcoming period.
New Task on Biorefineries
A new Task ‘Biorefineries: Co-production of Fuels,
Chemicals, Power and Materials from Biomass’ was
approved with seven Member Countries
participating initially and three more observing in
2007. The Task will be led by Dr Ir Ed de Jong,
assisted by Dr Ing René van Ree. The Operating
Agent is the Netherlands.
The background to this Task is that in a number of
industrialised countries, government, business,
society, and science have been engaged in outlining
the contours of future developments in the energy,
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