Article published by Wolfgang Palz, WCRE Chairman, March 2007

Energy is a basic need of our economy. Yet the world relies primarily on the polluting and exhaustible fossil energies. Consequently, we are faced today with three essential geopolitical challenges: security of energy supply, depletion of conventional fossil energy resources, and climate change that is by and large a result of current energy consumption patterns. The overarching solution for all these problems is the speedy development of the renewable energies – those derived from the sun, the wind, agriculture and forestry, water flow and other sources.

 Article "Renewable Energies: on their way to conquer world markets" (pdf)