Program of events

Agenda

WEAthens2014 will take place between the 3rd and the 7th of November 2014. Here is the agenda of events:

There are three types of activities:

For All: Yellow activities are those open to all who are willing to participate.
For Attendees: Magenta activities are for registered participants only – if you would like to register, please contact us at WEAthens2014@gmail.com.
For board members: Green activities are for WE board members and anybody with an interest in how WE is run.

Morning:
- Opening session:
  - Official opening ceremony of WEAthens2014, Kostas Latoufis, NTUA & Nea Guinea
  - Electrifying rural areas with small wind turbines and the Wind Empowerment association, Jon Sumanik-Leary, The University of Sheffield
  - 35 years of small wind on Scoraig, Hugh Piggott, Scoraig Wind Electric
- Small Wind in Athens, Kostas Latoufis, NTUA & Nea Guinea
- Introductions – 3 minutes per organisation + 1 minute per additional participant.
Afternoon:
- Working group presentations and discussion:
  - Technology
  - Maintenance
Evening:
- First public evening lectures – technical focus.

Morning:
- Working group presentations and discussion:
  - Market assessment and delivery models
  - Education
Afternoon:
- Working group presentations and discussion:
  - Measurement
- Working group small group session I
Evening:
- Wind Empowerment board meeting

Morning:
- Tutorials and demonstrations (split into 4 groups & rotating between activities):
  - Software tutorials
    - Wind Empowerment web site launch
    - NTUA software workshops
  - Laborotory demonstrations and practical workshops
    - NTUA wind tunnel and generator bench testing rig
    - Open-source wind datalogger workshop
Afternoon:
- Software tutorial: Wind resource assessment and design of off-grid electrification projects, Matteo Ranaboldo, UPC
- Working group small group session II
Evening:
- Second public evening lectures:
  - Distributed Energy for a Fair and Sustainable Distributed Economy and Society, Michel Bawens, P2P Foundation.

Morning:
- Concluding session:
  - Feedback from working groups
Afternoon:
- Field trip:
  - Small wind installations by Nea Guinea in Spithari.org – Marathonas
Evening:
- Wind powered party in Marathonas

Please contact us with any questions at: weathens2014@gmail.com