Windspeakers

<to be announced>, Baker & McKenzie

 Ted Cowen, Ontario Federation of Agriculture

Larry Sherwood, President of Sherwood Associates / Board Member IREC

Larry Sherwood is President of Sherwood Associates, a renewable energy consulting firm.

Larry has nearly 30 years of experience in the renewable energy field. He is Project Administrator for the Solar America Board for Codes and Standards, Executive Director of the Small Wind Certification Council, author of the IREC Report, U.S. Solar Market Trends 2007, and Editor of the IREC Small Wind Newsletter. 

Previously, Larry served as Executive Director of the American Solar Energy Society and Executive Director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife, Janet and daughter, Morgan.

Jim Tevold, Facility Director, Spirit Lake Community School, Iowa.

Tim Weis, Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency Policy, Pembina Institute

Tim Weis is a professional engineer and the Director of Renewable Energy and Efficiency Policy at the Pembina Institute.

His research focus is on technical and policy options to advance efficient and sustainable energy systems in Canada.

Tim has written numerous reports and manuals on renewable energy and energy efficiency on issues at national, provincial and municipal levels as well as issues specific to First Nations’ and northern contexts. He has assisted more than 20 communities at various stages of development of renewable energy projects.

Tim is also currently completing his PhD at the Université du Québec à Rimouski studying wind energy development in remote Canadian communities.

Tim has also worked as a renewable energy consultant examining wind energy challenges in Northern communities. Tim has a Masters of Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Alberta where he studied ice adhesion to wind turbine blades.

Tore Wizelius is Sweden's leading Community Wind expert and has worked at Gotland University for ten years.

He has publised five books about windpower, one about windpower cooperatives (1999), and Developing Wind Power Projects (Earthscan, 2007). Available here: Developing Wind Power Projects: Theory and Practice

His new book "Wind power plants and project development" which he wrote together with professor Joshua Earnest,  will be published by april 2009 by PHI Learning.

Tore has  developed a number of distance education courses, in english, swedish and spanish.

He is currently developing a community wind power project on the Island Holmön in northern Sweden; see www.holmovind.se/