Bonn, 27.08.2018. Our cities contain the settings and solution for a central existential challenge of our time: climate shift. The development of a regenerative energy system holds the key for the continued prospering of our social and economic structures. Communities, cities and regions as central places of human activity play a decisive role in this. The second edition of the book ‘Urban Energy Transition’ is a progressive reading for citizens, companies, communities, from villages to megacities and metropolitan regions that are striving for a rapid change from fossil fuels and nuclear energy to renewable energies. On about 700 pages, technical, financial, systematic, urban planning, landscape planning and sociological questions are discussed and strategies for a successful energy turnaround in the city and the region are presented.

European symposium and parlamentarian evening: A Europe of Renewable Energies

In order to end the dependence on fossil and nuclear energies in Europe quickly and cost-effectively, comprehensive efforts and appropriate framework conditions are required. A New Energy Market Framework Regulation can enable European countries to move into the solar age and strengthen cohesion in Europe. On the occasion of our 30th anniversary, we are discussing the future role of Europe, its regions and citizens in the realisation of this task of the century. You can expect concrete impulses, joint discussions, a parliamentary forum and a varied supporting programme.

Bonn, 21 June 2018. Declaration of the European Board of EUROSOLAR, formulated by Peter Droege, President EUROSOLAR

In the 30 years since the founding of EUROSOLAR, many extraordinary successes and advances in the proliferation of renewable energy have been made: the powerful feed-in tariffs; the rise of 100 % renewable buildings, communities and regions; the broad march of solar and wind into many countries’ power mixes; the revolution of national policies to embrace energy transitions; and the rise of renewable energy investment – which has long become the dominant mode in annual capital expenditures in new power generation capacity world-wide.