EDI is proud to announce that Hermann Scheer confirmed to share his knowledge during EDI’s first conference on Energy Transition & Leadership.

Hermann Scheer (born April 29, 1944 in Wehrheim) is a Social Democrat member of the German Bundestag (Parliament), President of Eurosolar (The European Association for Renewable Energy) and General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy.

Scheer believes that the continuation of current patterns of energy supply and use will be environmentally damaging, with renewable energy being the only realistic alternative. Scheer has concluded that it is technically and environmentally feasible to harness enough solar radiation to achieve a total replacement of the foclear (fossil/nuclear) energy system by a global renewable energy economy. The main obstacle to such a change is seen to be political, not technical or economic. In 1999 he was one of the initiators of the German feed-in tariffs that were the major source of the rise of renewable energies in Germany during the following years.

More information about the conference on Energy Transition & Leadership can be found at: http://www.energydelta.org/en/mainmenu/conferences/intro