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.,…
Our European Delegates’ Assembly has elected a new Executive Board. Stephan Grüger (front right in the photo) was unanimously elected as the new President. His deputies are Eliana Cangelli, Wolfgang Hein, Fabio Longo, Carol Olsen, Brigitte Schmidt and Milan Smrž.…
by Irm Scheer-Pontenagel On 8 November 2023, long-time EUROSOLAR board member Rosa Hemmers died suddenly and unexpectedly after a short, serious illness. We were all surprised and saddened by her death. I got to know Rosa Hemmers in 1988 when…
Due to high demand to present at the 17th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference, EUROSOLAR is pleased to announce that additional spaces have opened up for abstract submission until July 21. IRES23 is held from November 28-30, 2023 in Düsseldorf,…
Fossil subsidies double to over 1 Trillion USD – renewables are left in the dust while the climate spins out of control. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published its Fossil Fuels Consumption Subsidies 2022 Report, which analyzes the impact…
An already weak Ocean Treaty is fatally weakened by continued fossil fuel use *We define this as instantly available, zero carbon and sustainable – no biomass combustion, no natural gas burning, no nuclear energy For the first time, the members…
I apologize for not having been able to attend this important meeting and I am also very sorry not to be able to once more meet the friends of EUROSOLAR. In fact the reason why I am unable to be…
Rome/Bonn, 22 February 2023. The increasing effects of the fossil-fuel induced climate destabilization seen and felt world-wide – droughts, fires, drying rivers, floods, storms, crop failures and many more), but also our dangerous dependency on fossil fuels make it clear…