EUROSOLAR Press Release, Berlin/Bonn, November 29th, 2007

EUROSOLAR, the European Association for Renewable Energy and the KfW Bankengruppe award the European Solar Prizes 2007 on November 29th, 2007 in the Berlin office of the KfW Bankengruppe.

Detlef Leinberger, Member of the Executive Board of the KfW Bankengruppe, will open the Award Ceremony and welcome the laureates and guests of the European Solar Prize 2007. Dr. Hermann Scheer, MP, President EUROSOLAR and Winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, will speak about the inspiring role of pioneers. The laureates will be presented by Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo E. Simonis, Social Science Research Center Berlin. Mrs. Irm Pontenagel, Managing Director EUROSOLAR, will moderate the event.

The laureates of the European Solar Prize 2007 are:

Category cities, municipalities or municipal services

- Thisted Kommune / Denmark, for a municipal energy supply with Renewable Energies Category industrial, commercial or agricultural operations Producers of Renewable Energies

- SMA Technologie AG / Germany, for an innovative range of products for a solar energy supply

- Acciona Solar, S.A. / Spain, for “Huerta solar” model – make solar energy accessible to all parts of society

Farmers / agricultural operations

- Wolfgang Löser / Austria, for Austria´s first energy self-reliant farm

- ZEVO, spol.s.r.o. / Czech Republic, for the biggest biogas plant of Central Europe

Category owners or users of installations utilizing Renewable Energies

- J. Schmalz GmbH / Germany, for an innovative plus energy company conception

Category local or regional associations promoting projects for Renewable Energies

- Association négaWatt / France, for role model for a new energy policy in France

Category media award

- www.sonnenseite.com / Germany, Bigi Alt, for exemplary information work in the fields of Renewable Energies

- La Maison écologique / France, for journalistic work in the fields of ecological building and Renewable Energies

Category education

- „Renewable City. A comprehensive guide to an Urban Revolution” / Australia, Peter Droege, for his longtime commitment to an urban energy revolution

Category special award for extraordinary individual commitment

- Martin Vosseler / Switzerland, for an outstanding commitment to a Renewable Energy supply in Europe

- Victoria Kerner-Alexandratou / Greece, for an unremitting commitment to the use of Renewable Energy

Since 1994 EUROSOLAR has been awarding the European Solar Prizes to municipalities, municipally owned entities, companies, individuals, engineers, architects, owners of installations using Renewable Energies and to organizations who rendered an outstanding service to the application of Renewable Energies. You may find appreciations and video films about all laureates on our homepage on Thursday, November 29th, 2007.

 Press Release European Solar Prize 2007 (pdf)