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Bioenergy

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World Bioenergy Association The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is an international NGO and non-profit association that represents the bioenergy sector globally. The organisation works to promote the use of sustainable bioenergy which includes Biomass, Biofuels and Biogas ...
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Biomass Thermal Energy Council The Biomass Thermal Energy Council (BTEC) is a nonprofit organization in the United States focused on advancing the use of biomass for heat and other thermal energy applications. BTEC is an association of biomass fuel producers, appliance manufa ...
(BTEC) * Pellet Fuels Institute


Geothermal energy

* Geothermal Energy Association * Geothermal Rising
Global Geothermal Alliance


Hydropower

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International Hydropower Association The International Hydropower Association (IHA) is a non-profit, international organisation and membership association representing the global hydropower sector. IHA has members in more than 80 countries, including over 100 corporate and affiliat ...
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National Hydropower Association The National Hydropower Association (NHA) represents the interests of the U.S. hydropower industry, which includes all forms of water energy—conventional, hydrokinetic, tidal and ocean. Since 1983, NHA has represented the majority of domestic, no ...
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Renewable energy

* Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT),
Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...
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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
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American Council on Renewable Energy Founded in 2001, the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a member-based, 501(c)(3) national non-profit organization that unites finance, policy and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy. ACORE's member ...
* American Solar Energy Society
Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA)
* EKOenergy * Energy-Quest *
Environmental and Energy Study Institute The Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) is an independent, bi-partisan 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that aims to promote environmentally sustainable societies. Based out of Washington, DC, EESI seeks to be a catalyst moving so ...
* EurObserv'ER * European Renewable Energy Council *
Green Power Forum The Green Power Forum was an English group created by companies in the renewable energy sector to assist organisations and businesses in becoming more energy efficient. Organisation The Green Power Forum hosts conferences aiming to advise on t ...
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International Renewable Energy Agency The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is an intergovernmental organization mandated to facilitate cooperation, advance knowledge, and promote the adoption and sustainable use of renewable energy. It is the first international organis ...
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International Renewable Energy Alliance International Renewable Energy Alliance (REN Alliance) is a formal partnership entered into on 4 June 2004 by five non-profit international renewable energy organisations: * International Hydropower Association (IHA), * International Solar Energ ...
(REN Alliance) * Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy *
Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy The Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy was created to ensure that renewable energy, sustainability, and conservation were top issues in the 2008 presidential election. It brought together 2008 presidential candidates to generate discussion a ...
* REN21 *
Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory The University of California, Berkeley, contains many research centers and laboratories. Space Sciences Lab SETI@Home Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mathematical Sciences Research Institute ...
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Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a Vienna-baseinternational organisation (link in German)that advances markets for renewable energy and energy efficiency with a particular emphasis on the emerging markets and d ...
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RenewableUK RenewableUK, formerly known as the British Wind Energy Association (BWEA), is the trade association for wind power, wave power and tidal power industries in the United Kingdom. RenewableUK has over 660 corporate members, from wind, wave and tidal st ...
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Renewable Fuels Association The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) represents the ethanol industry promoting policies, regulations, and research and development initiatives that will lead to the increased production and use of ethanol fuel. First organized in 1981, RFA serves ...
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Rocky Mountain Institute RMI (Rocky Mountain Institute) is an organization in the United States co-founded by Amory Lovins dedicated to research, publication, consulting, and lecturing in the field of sustainability, with a focus on profitable innovations for energy an ...
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SustainableEnergy SustainableEnergy (VedvarendeEnergi), which was called Danish Organisation for Renewable Energy (OVE) until 2010, is a non-governmental, non-profit, membership based association. SustainableEnergy was founded in 1975 based on a popular movement f ...
* Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation *
World Council for Renewable Energy The World Council for Renewable Energy defends, develops, and promotes policies on the multinational, governmental, regional and individual levels in favor of the use of natural and renewable forms of energy to replace fossil and nuclear energy. ...


Solar energy

* International Solar Alliance (ISA) * International Solar Energy Society *
Solar Cookers International Solar Cookers International (SCI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to improve human and environmental health by supporting the expansion of effective carbon-free solar cooking in world regions of greatest need. ...
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Solar Energy Industries Association The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), established in 1974, is the national non-profit trade association of the solar-energy industry in the United States. In 2019, the group reported at least 1,000 member companies. SEIA is a 501(c ...
(SEIA) * Wadebridge Renewable Energy Network (WREN)


Wind energy

* American Wind Energy Association *
Citizen Partnerships for Offshore Wind Citizen Partnerships for Offshore Wind is a collaboration of communities and organizations that believe the United States must move towards indigenous clean energy sources like offshore wind and that public education and citizen engagement are esse ...
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Global Wind Energy Council The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) was established in 2005 to provide a credible and representative forum for the entire wind energy sector at an international level. GWEC’s mission is to ensure that wind power is established as one of the wo ...
* WindEurope * World Wind Energy Association


Educational and research institutions


Renewable energy

* Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST) at Loughborough University *
NaREC Narec, since 2014 known as the National Renewable Energy Centre, is a part of the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult, a British technology innovation and research centre for offshore wind power, wave energy, tidal energy and low carbon t ...
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US specializes in the research and development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy systems integration, and sustainable transportation. NREL is a federally funded research an ...
(NREL) * RES - The School for Renewable Energy Science (University in Iceland and University in Akureyri) * Norwegian Centre for Renewable Energy (SFFE) at NTNU, SINTEF. * Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT)


Solar energy

* Clean Energy Institute (CEI) at the
University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...
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Florida Solar Energy Center The Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC) is a research institute of the University of Central Florida, located on a 20-acre (.08 km2) research complex on Florida's Space Coast at UCF's Cocoa satellite campus. FSEC is the largest and most act ...
(FSEC) * Plataforma Solar de Almería (PSA)


See also

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List of countries by electricity production from renewable source This article is a list of countries and territories by electricity generation from Renewable energy, renewable sources every year. Note that most countries import and/or export electricity, so the percentage figure do not reflect the percentage o ...
* List of renewable energy topics by country * List of photovoltaics companies *
List of large wind farms This is a list of the largest onshore wind farms that are currently operational, rated by generating capacity. Also listed are onshore wind farms with notability other than size, and largest proposed projects. Largest operational onshore wind ...
* List of environmental organizations * List of anti-nuclear groups * List of photovoltaics research institutes {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Renewable Energy Organizations Renewable
Organizations An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. The word is derived from ...
Renewable energy commercialization