The 6th Global Conference on Renewables and Energy Efficiency for Desert Regions (GCREEDER 2018) will kick-off next Tuesday under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Hamza Bin Al Hussein.
The Conference is organized by the University of Jordan (UJ) in cooperation with other universities in Jordan.
The 3-day event will focus on the applications and technologies of renewable energy for desert regions, and will devote a number of sessions to address investment in renewables, and renewable energy regulations and policies.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee Prof. Ahmad Al-Salaymeh, said that the conference will include 34 sessions and 105 addresses by leading experts and researchers from all over the globe.
GCREEDER 2018 follows five successful conferences in 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2016.
According to Al-Salaymeh, over 100 papers have been submitted for inclusion in the conference from Algeria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Syria, Tunisia, Kuwait, Egypt, USA, Germany, Britain, Italy, Cyprus, Greece, Austria, Bangladesh, India, Spain, Malaysia, Portugal, Lebanon, Oman, in addition to Jordan.
The Conference will include themes such as energy resources, applications and technologies of renewable energy, grid connected renewable energy systems, environmental aspects of energy systems, climate change, fuel cells and others.
The event will also examine the results of implementing the renewable energy strategy of Jordan 2050 over the past two years in terms of cost and technology.
The last conference was marked by publishing selected papers in the Energy Conversion and Management Journal and this one will be of the same calibre. All GCREEDER conferences have attracted professionals from industry and academic fields.