RenewableUK, formerly known as theBritish Wind Energy Association (BWEA), is thetrade association forwind power,wave power andtidal power industries in the United Kingdom.
A number ofuniversities active in wind energy in the 1970s met under umbrella of the ITDG Wind Panel (Intermediate Technology Development Group). The BWEA was formed from the ITDG Wind Panel along with other interested parties and representatives from industry, to promotewind power in the United Kingdom. The inaugural meeting of the BWEA took place on 17 November 1978 at theRutherford Laboratory withPeter Musgrove ofReading University as chairman.[citation needed]
In 2004 the British Wind Energy Association expanded its remit to include wave and tidal energy, and to use the Association's experience to guide these technologies along the same path to commercialisation. In December 2009, to reflect this expansion in the industries it represented, members resolved to adopt the new name of RenewableUK.
The members of RenewableUK are represented in Wales byRenewableUK Cymru,[1] theCardiff-based branch of the organisation. The remit in Wales expanded in February 2014 to include all renewable energy technologies and energy storage.[2]
In 2008 the then BWEA was found by theAdvertising Standards Authority (ASA) to have overstated the carbon dioxide emissions displaced by wind generation. The BWEA and its members had claimed a value of 860 grams per kilowatt hour but the ASA found this was exaggerated by 100% and ordered the BWEA to reduce the figure to 430 grams.[3]
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