International

Electrotechnical

Commission

International Standards and Conformity Assessment for all electrical, electronic and related technologies

	From products to solutions – Ensuring compatibility Thomas S. Gross Chief Operating Officer, Eaton
	Increase bankability - build markets and industries Sandy Butterfield, Founding CEO and CTO Boulder Wind Power
	Building trust - Opening global markets Dr Zida Yu, Senior Vice President and Corporate Technology Officer Haier Group
	Accelerating innovation – Assessing competition Dr Tamotsu Nomakuchi, President AIST and Chair of the Technology Council of JISC
	Globally engineered quality – Locally relevant Dr Kazuo Kyuma, Executive Vice President and Group President Semiconductor & Device, Mitsubishi Electric
	Adding agility – Reducing complexity Wolfhart Hauser, Chief Executive Officer, Intertek Group
	Globally concerted efforts – Developing enterprise Dr Naoya Takahashi, Executive Vice President and Executive Officer, Hitachi Ltd.
	Sustainable business – And cost optimization Franz Fehrenbach, Chairman, Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH
	Increased efficiency: Global relevance Keith Nosbusch, Chairman/CEO Rockwell Automation
	Common platforms: the basis for individual innovation Matthias Kurth, President Federal Network Agency
	Green Safety: Facilitating Global Trade Keith E. Williams, Pres. & CEO Underwriters Laboratories
	The Energy Efficiency Challenge Jean-Pascal Tricoire, CEO Schneider Electric

Increase bankability - build markets and industries

Sandy Butterfield, Founding CEO and CTO Boulder Wind Power

Boulder Wind Power is active in 1 IEC Technical Committee.

Involvement in the IEC

Committee	Description
Technical Committees and Subcommittees
TC 88	Wind Turbines

Sandy Butterfield is currently Chairman of IEC TC 88, which is responsible for international wind turbine standards. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers. Sandy graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering in 1977 where he studied under Bill Heronemous, famous for his floating offshore wind farm proposals in the early 1970s.