Bonn, 10th April 2025, EUROSOLAR e.V. and NRW.Energy4Climate have opened the application phase for the European Solar Prize 2025. Applications and nominations for the European Solar Prize are now open and are to be submitted through our online portal. All…
In this article originally published in SOLARZEITALTAR 2-2023/1-2024, Ralf Bischof argues for the expansion of renewable energy delivery via new actors. Customers may ulitimately be the winners if regulation allows for new actors and innovations, as Bischof contends.
Statement from the Board of the German section of EUROSOLAR e.V. pertaining to the German federal election result and the possible coalition negotiations between the CDU, CSU and SPD.
In this interview with Westfalen-Wind co-founder Johannes Lackmann, the energy transition and how it directly benefits consumers is discussed, as well as potential challenges.
The daily bombardment of reports from the media and so-called social networks leaves many people today increasingly perplexed. Is there a threat of solar infarction from uncontrolled solar power plants? Will private photovoltaic (PV) systems become economically unviable or even banned due to increasing hours with negative prices? Are natural gas boilers booming instead of heating pumps? Or should one rather wait to get heating from district heating or hydrogen? A few factors to consider.
Nina Scheer, energy politics speaker of the SPD parliamentary group, draws upon the record of the Ampel coalition and looks predominantly to the future. Which topics remain open? What will come of the Renewable Energy Law (EEG)? And what should we expect now, until and after the 2025 federal election?
This article and the quotes therein were translated from German. On 29th November 2024, the celebratory awarding of the German Solar Prize 2024 took place in Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen. Outstanding projects and personalities that apply innovation, engagement and spirit to the…
From Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Methling, EUROSOLAR Member I had known Brigitte and Ditmar since the early 1990s through my colleague Prof. Dr. Fritz Tack from the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of Rostock and the Innovation…
Annette Gehrs has worked in the Bonn office of EUROSOLAR e.V. for over two decades. Now she is going into well-deserved retirement. On her last day at work, the President of the European Association for Renewable Energy – EUROSOLAR e.V.,…
EUROSOLAR e.V. calls for accelerated expansion of renewable energies The President of EUROSOLAR, Stephan Grüger, comments on the resolution of the “COP28” climate conference: “The final document confirms the nonsensical nature of such conferences. People are now celebrating the fact…