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Renewable Energy Sector Launches Action Alliance

by Zach March 20, 2013
written by Zach March 20, 2013
Renewable Energy Sector Launches Action Alliance

From the new Action Alliance for Communication in the Renewable Energy Sector:

Action Alliance for Communication in the Renewable Energy Sector

On 8 March, around 100 representatives of the renewable energy sector, from Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, have joined forces to form an action alliance. Made up of operators, research institutes, universities, journalists, communication agencies, companies and associations, this group aims to develop a joint communication strategy. The first workshop took place during the photovoltaic symposium in Bad Staffelstein. Further meetings and political round table discussions are planned.

Remaining clean: transparency, stability and energy democracy

The subsidies for fossil fuels in Germany amount to over 20 billion euros annually, assuming 70 euros per ton of carbon dioxide. If the German government’s decision of the energy transformation to more renewables (the socalled Energiewende) is reversed, carbon dioxide emissions and costs and subsidies for the consequences of climate change will continue to rise.

While the levies for renewable energies are clearly declared, the end user sees nothing of the billions in profit and the external costs of old energy structures on his or her energy bill. The current plans of the Federal Government, to cut remunerations they had already agreed to, burden the protection of legitimate expectation and are an encroachment upon property rights.

The action alliance calls for transparency in electricity costs, stable grids thanks to the combination of all renewable energies, stable framework conditions and energy democracy.

Becoming clean: 100 per cent renewable energies

The price for a solar power plant has halved in only three years. The many decentralised renewable energy systems can not only introduce a democratic energy revolution in Germany. The technical challenges of full provision with renewable energies can be solved – this has already been shown by numerous research projects.

The action alliance is convinced that renewable energies can supply 100 per cent of energy needs even before 2050, because it is technically possible, affordable and citizen-oriented – a number of municipal initiatives even have taken up this goal for the 2020s.

Here’s the full Action Alliance list:

  • Armin Froitzheim, Bosch Solar Energy AG
  • Dr. Klaus Heidler, Solar Consulting GmbH Hermann Issa, Belectric OPV GmbH
  • Iris Krampitz, PR-Agentur Krampitz
  • Thomas Nordmann, TNC Consulting AG
  • Pia Manz, Fachhochschule Nordhausen
  • Juliane Berghold, Photovoltaik-Institut Berlin AG David Emanuel Stakic, Hochschule Ulm
  • Holger Ruf, Hochschule Ulm
  • Arthur Schraml
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Mertens, Fachhochschule Münster
  • Prof. Dr. Martin Spülbeck, innovia solar
  • Thomas Kotitschke, Phoenix Solar AG
  • Raphael Henkel, Ingeteam GmbH
  • Heiner Breuer, abakus solar AG
  • Dirk Kühnel, Deutsche Kreditbank AG
  • Christof Erban
  • Rafiq Iqbal, ABB STOTZ-KONTAKT GmbH
  • Dr. Achim Woyte, 3E, Brüssel
  • Prof. Dr. Volker Quaschning, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft HTW Berlin Christoph Schmidt, Fachhochschule Nordhausen
  • Holger Loew
  • Joachim Laschinski, SMA Solar Technology AG
  • Dr. Jens Schneider, Fraunhofer CSP
  • Martin Denz, alfasolar GmbH
  • Ralf Haselhuhn, DGS
  • Markus Steinkötter, Sunnyside upP GmbH
  • Alexander Schorn , Schorn Energie GmbH & Co. KG
  • Richard Hübner, Schneider Electric
  • Richard Hübner, SOLERIS sprl – GmbH
  • Christian Brennig
  • Wolfgang Halder, Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co KG Thomas Kühefuß, Diehl AKO Stiftung & Co. KG Andreas Schlumberger, KACO new energy GmbH Carsten Körnig, Bundesverband Solarwirtschaft Bernd Dussel, activ solar Energietechnik GmbH Erhard Krausen, abakus solar AG
  • Felix Rasch, GEOSOL Gesellschaft für Solarenergie mbH Werner Müller, MHH Solartechnik GmbH
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is the director of CleanTechnica, the most popular cleantech-focused website in the world, and Planetsave, a world-leading green and science news site. He has been covering green news of various sorts since 2008, and he has been especially focused on solar energy, electric vehicles, and wind energy since 2009. Aside from his work on CleanTechnica and Planetsave, he's the founder and director of Solar Love, EV Obsession, and Bikocity. To connect with Zach on some of your favorite social networks, go to ZacharyShahan.com and click on the relevant buttons.

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