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• Canadian Solar Industries Association (CanSIA)

  • http://www.cansia.ca/
    "CanSIA’s mission is to develop a strong, efficient, ethical and professional Canadian solar industry, able to service an expanding domestic energy market, to provide innovative solar solutions to world energy problems, and to play a major role in promoting the transition to a solar energy future worldwide."

• Solar Energy Society of Canada Inc. (SESCI)

  • http://www.solarenergysociety.ca/
    "SESCI promotes the increased use of solar and other renewable energies in Canada. To promote these goals SESCI has developed programs in three broad areas: education, technical development and public policy. Through these programs SESCI supports energy conservation, industry, and all forms of renewable energy, such as active and passive solar, photovoltaic, micro hydro, biomass, wind and earth energy."

• Independent Power Producers' Society of Ontario (IPPSO)

  • http://www.ippso.org/
    "IPPSO's mission is to promote the interests of independent generators within a truly competitive power industry in Ontario."

• The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA)

  • http://www.canwea.ca/
    "CANWEA's mission is to represent the wind energy community, comprised of organizations and individuals who are directly involved in the development and application of wind energy technology, products and services, and to support the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy including the promotion of a suitable policy environment."

• The Green Communities Association

  • http://www.gca.ca/
    "Our mission is to build sustainable communities through resource conservation, pollution prevention, and the adoption of ecologically sound practices."

United States

• Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)

  • http://www.seia.org/
    "The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is the national trade association of solar energy manufacturers, dealers, distributors, contractors and installers. SEIA's primary mission is to expand the use of solar technologies in the global marketplace."

• American Solar Energy Society (ASES)

  • http://www.ases.org/
    "The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is a national organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar energy for the benefit of U.S. citizens and the global environment."

• The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

  • http://www.awea.org/
    "AWEA is a national trade association that represents wind power plant developers, wind turbine manufacturers, utilities, consultants, insurers, financiers, researchers, and others involved in the wind industry. The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) promotes wind energy as a clean source of electricity for consumers around the world."

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• The International Solar Energy Society (ISES)

  • http://www.ises.org/
    "Founded in 1954, ISES today is the largest organisation in the field of research, utilisation and promotion of Renewable Energy technology world-wide. More than 30 000 members in over 100 countries constitute the body politic of ISES."
  • Worldwide Information System for Renewable Energy (WIRE)
    Includes conference papers, jobs, whitepapers, projects, organisations, literature, links, discussion forums, a glossary, and news.
  • UK Solar Energy Society
    "The UK Solar Energy Society is a non-profit organisation. It is a forum for all those interested in the advancement of the utilisation of the sun's energy. The Society represents the UK national section of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES)."

• European Solar Energy Association (EUROSOLAR)

  • http://www.eurosolar.org/
    "EUROSOLAR was founded in 1988, and is a non-partisan European Energy Organization that is independent of industry, political institutions, and special interest groups. EUROSOLAR has as its objectives the replacement of nuclear and fossil fuels and their sources with environmentally sound energy sources, using both direct and indirect sources of a solar energy (= renewable energies), such as solar energy, wind energy, biomass, hydropower, and the ocean energies."

• The European Association of Renewable Energy Research Centres (EUREC)

  • http://www.eurec.be/
    "EUREC Agency has been established as a European Economic Interest Grouping in 1991 to strengthen and rationalize the European RD&D efforts on renewable energy technologies. As an independent association, it groups about 40 prominent RD&D groups from all EU States - except Luxembourg. The research fields covered include solar buildings, wind, photovoltaics, biomass, small hydro, solar thermal power stations, ocean energy, solar chemistry and solar materials, hybrid systems, developing countries and integration of renewable energy in the energy infrastructure."

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