 7th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2012)
bcc Berlin Congress Center
November 12-14, 2012
Call for papers: We are delighted about the many abstracts we have received and would like to thank all participants! Acceptance notifictions will be sent out by e-mail around mid-June.
Because of the huge success EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) are continuing the IRES series in 2012. The 7th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2012) will take place at the Berlin Congress Center bcc, November 12-14, 2012.
The view in the professional energy storage world is that IRES has developed into the central platform for sharing knowledge and exchanging ideas on one of the key issues of future energy supply. IRES 2011 attracted attendance from more than 40 countries with 600 attendees and repeated the success of the previous year.
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 Presented in German: 6. EUROSOLAR-Konferenz
"Stadtwerke mit Erneuerbaren Energien"
In collaboration with: Stadtwerke Heidelberg GmbH
21/22 June 2012, venue: Kongresshaus Stadthalle Heidelberg
City utilities, medium-sized firms, local communities and civil society coalitions are the central actors of renewable energy development. A viable future for energy supply based on decentralized resources increases local value-add, creates employment, contributes to sustainable energy provision and helps curb climate change. City utilities have become increasingly aware of the opportunity therein. With new business models they are evolving from traditional energy suppliers into competitively innovating modern-day energy service providers.
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 Press release Bonn/Berlin 13 April 2012 (translated from German)
Angela Merkel and Norbert Röttgen should leave no doubt in saying "NO"! to call for nuclear subsidies
Oliver Krischer, member of the German parliament who also is board member of EUROSOLAR Germany, on the request by four EU countries calling for support for nuclear power:
"What the nuclear-friendly governments of France, the UK, Czech Republic and Poland are actually admitting by their initiative in the EU is that building new nuclear power plants is no commercially feasible option. Despite all kinds of privileges and subsidies these have enjoyed for decades.
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 Press release, Bonn, 7 February 2012
EUROSOLAR announces European Solar Prize 2012 -
Proposals accepted until end of June EUROSOLAR, in cooperation with KfW-Bankengruppe, recognizes outstanding achievements, innovation and creativity in promoting widespread use of renewable energy through the annual European Solar Prize, now in its nineteenth year. Applications and proposals are accepted until 30 June 2012. The recipients will be celebrated at a festive gathering at the end of the year.
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 EUROSOLAR supports the worldwide campaign of IPPNW Germany at the first anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster beginning March 11, 2012. With your help we want to make it widely known that: the most devastating nuclear accident to happen since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 was triggered by the earthquake and its mighty aftershocks that shook Japan on March 11, 2011. The fact that the earthquake was able to create such havoc in the nuclear reactor was due to a number of serious long-standing safety defects resulting from the systematic neglect of basic nuclear reactor safety requirements in Fukushima.
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 NEW: Published by EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), February 2012, CD-ROM with the conference proceedings of the "6th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition" (IRES 2011), Berlin/Germany, November 28-30, 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-037648-1
The IRES 2011 attracted attendance from more than 40 countries with 600 attendees and repeated the success of the previous year.
Directed by scientific conference chair Professor Dirk Uwe Sauer (RWTH Aachen University) experts from Germany and abroad discussed the technologies, available and in development, for storing energy generated from renewable resources at the Berlin Congress Center bcc for three days. Alongside around 100 presentations, the participants engaged in a lively exchange on the rapid advance of energy storage technology worldwide. The CD-ROM of the IRES 2011 contains more than 2,000 pages of material and gives you a profound insight into the matter.
I would like to order the CD-ROM of the 6th International Renewable Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (IRES 2011)
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 Bonn, 5 January 2012
Time for Code RED - the Renewable Earth Decade
After ending the reign of nuclear power, time to end fossil fuel burning
While in Durban the appalling plan was hatched to maintain collective inaction for almost another decade, a team of Russian and US scientists readied their Powerpoint presentation for an American Geophysical Union meeting in San Fransciso. It reported of the discovery of vast new and powerful methane plumes rising from the shallow seabed along the Siberian coastline and escaping directly into the atmosphere. A greenhouse gas 20-70 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, the massive Arctic methane store, if melted, is capable of triggering uncontrollable and abrupt climate change.
The final alarm has now been sounded: time for ringing in Code RED, the Renewable Earth Decade.
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