The European Delegates’ Assembly named Prof Peter Droege President of EUROSOLAR on 2 April 2011. The German Section of EUROSOLAR had nominated him. From among the Assembly delegates nine Vice-Presidents were elected. Dr Hermann Scheer founder and long-time President of EUROSOLAR was posthumously appointed Honorary President.
Peter Droege, winner of the European Solar Prize, is a widely acknowledged expert in renewable and sustainable urban design, development and infrastructure. His teaching, research and work have emphasized the renewable city, the urban energy transformation to cities and towns powered by renewable energy and a 100% renewable world. He is now Professor and Chair of Urban Sustainability, Climate and Planning Education at the University of Liechtenstein. He also directs a major, cross-border applied research project to develop renewable energy – ‘Lake Constance-Alpine Rhine Valley Energy and Climate Region’ – an initiative the University of Liechtenstein is participating in. Before his appointment there he has performed academic roles at Munich’s Technical University of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Tokyo, and universities in Sydney. For over a decade he has served EUROSOLAR and the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) on a voluntary basis, following Hermann Scheer’s invitation to join as a WCRE founding member in the year 2000.
On his election Peter Droege said: “EUROSOLAR is the most important independently operating association for renewable energy in Europe, founded by Hermann Scheer, Irm Scheer-Pontenagel and supporters in Bonn 1988. It is my duty to serve the European and German public and to support the national sections with their excellent work, to carry on with the rich and successful legacy of these first 20 years in innovative ways and full of energy. No more obstacles should impede a decentralized and locally sourced entirely renewable energy supply. The shift to renewable energy is essential, because the path to social emancipation, economic renewal, regional added value and the very foundation of a healthy ecology lies in it. Only with it the unfolding climate chaos and the nearing production peak of oil can be confronted. The complete move to renewable energy alone can end the unspeakable suffering daily inflicted on mankind by the use of atomic energy and fossil fuel, rooted in history but proved to be completely unnecessary and outdated today.”
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