EPIA and Greenpeace to hold panel debate

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For the past 10 years, this series of reports has firmly been established as the authority on photovoltaic technology. ??The discussion will address the role of photovoltaics on a global scale and how this type of clean, efficient and renewable energy could generate enough electricity to satisfy 21 percent of the world’s electricity needs by 2050.

Coupled with the subsequent reduction of CO2, predicted by 2020 to be in the region of a staggering 542 million tonnes, by switching only 20 percent of power generation to photovoltaics, four billion tonnes of CO2 per year could be avoided from 2050.??

This publication provides a set of recommendations for developing both on-grid and off-grid markets world-wide. If well designed and accompanied by strong co-drivers such as simple administrative processes and smooth grid connection procedures – the feed-in mechanism has proved to be the most effective scheme in developed countries. ??

The high level panel will also discuss:??

  • The recommendations for the global development of both on-grid and off-grid markets?;
  • How photovoltaic technology has already demonstrated and will continue to be a motor of economic development, attracting investments and creating local jobs; and
  • The many social and environmental benefits that photovoltaics can offer.???

Michael Köhler

Michael Köhler is the head of Cabinet for Commissioner Oettinger, responsible for Energy. His career at Commission spans over 16 years and three DGs. ??At DG Maritime Affairs he was the Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Borg and the Head of Unit for Maritime Policy: Mediterranean and Black Sea. Mr Köhler has also worked for DG RELEX on coordination of the CFSP policy as well as assisting the Director of the South Mediterranean, Middle and Near East Directorate.

Ingmar Wilhelm

Ingmar Wilhelm is president of the EPIA, Brussels, elected in spring 2010. ??Ingmar Wilhelm’s professional experience lies in the energy and the telecommunications industry. Throughout the past 20 years, he has been engaged in developing, mostly in a multi-cultural environment, new businesses targeting many European countries both in the East and West. Since 2008 he concentrates on the development of renewable energies for multiple technologies in different markets and regulatory environments.

Sven Teske

Sven Teske is an engineer (Dipl-Ing) and the director of Greenpeace International`s Renewable Energy Campaign. He has been responsible for the development of numerous renewable energy campaigns and was the founder of Greenpeace Energy – Germany's only cooperative in the power sector. From 2004, he has served as director of the Renewable Energy Campaign for Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous studies in the field of renewable energy, including the world energy scenario “Energy [R]evolution”. Since 2008, he has been serving as a lead author for the IPCC Special Report Renewables (SRREN), a position in which he will continue until 2011.

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