The 1973 Unesco Congress The Sun in The Service of Mankind: Global Renewable Energy Implementation to date

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1 The 1973 Unesco Congress The Sun in The Service of Mankind: Global Renewable Energy Implementation to date Paris, Unesco, 3 October 2013 Wolfgang Palz, WCRE

2 The Big Bang for Renewable Energies 1973

3 The Big Bang for Modern Electricity in 1800: Volta presents to Napoleon in Paris his electrochemical battery

4 The Discovery of PV in Paris 1839: Edmond Becquerel

5 World s First Demonstration of Solar Energy: Augustin Mouchot, Paris 1860s

6 Background of the 1973 Unesco Congress Recognition of pressing Energy problems on human scale Global change Limits of fossil resources (Peak Oil...) Political concern for National Energy Independence RE are locally available everywhere A first UN Congress on RE in Rome in 1961 mobilised 2000 people. It motivated the French Marcel Perrot to set up the association Comples for co-operation of the Mediterranean Nations on RE

7 Prof Marcel Perrot: Author of La houille d or (the golden coal) Key Initiator of the 1973 Unesco Congress

8 Other Protagonists of the 1973 Congress Félix Trombe Pierre Auger

9 Other Key Actors of the 1973 Congress Michel Rodot, CNRS Pierre Vasseur, Polytechnique et CNES Jean-Pierre Girardier, Sofretes Alain Liébard, Energies pour le Monde Philippe Chartier, INRA Wolfgang Palz, CNES And hundreds of others from all over the World: USA, Germany, Soviet Union...

10 What gave the 1973 Congress its particular Importance? A few weeks after the Congress came the first Oil Price shock

11 Immediate Follow ups of the 1973 Unesco Congress in France Government: Jean-Claude Colli in charge CNRS: Robert Chabbal creates PIRDES COMES: Henri Durand first President 1981: AFME, Philippe Chartier DG (exists until today as ADEME)

12 Activities in the US and Europe related to the 1973 Unesco Congress First EU R&D Programme on the RE Proposed by the EU Commission as suggested by France in 1974 Adopted by the EU Council in 1975 Major Market developments on PV and Wind Power in the United States (President Carter, California Governor Brown)

13 Nairobi 1981: UN Conference on New and Renewable Sources of Energy As a Result, a Programme of Action was adopted by the UN General Assembly But in reality, the Conference marked a preliminary halt to global interest in the RE A high wall had built up against the RE triggered by an euphoria on Nuclear power. Only the Chernobyl disaster gave some relief.

14 1988: Here comes the Man for the SOLAR AGE Hermann Scheer

15 1993 in Paris: 20th Anniversary of the 1973 Unesco Congress Spreading our Wings! Organisers: Unesco, EU, ISES, Eurosolar, ADEME, IEA, Energies pour le Monde Follow ups. World Solar Programme adopted by UN General Assembly European Solar Council (Club de Paris)

16 1997: EU Action Plan for RE by 2010 (EU 15) EU Commission Communication COM(97)599 PV: 1 million systems. 3 GW accumulated in 2010 from.003 GW in 95 Globally: 2.4 GW annual production by 2010 Wind Power: 40 GW accumulated from 1 GW in 95 Bio-Power: 32 mtoe for Power Generation New Jobs:

17 Bonn 2004: Governmental RE Conference 3000 delegates from 154 nations Follow ups German Government (Schröder) initiates REN21 in Paris German Government (Merkel) initiates IRENA creation process In 2004, The European Parliament urges the Commission and the Council to start the political process of setting RE targets of 20% implementation by Was adopted as demanded in 2009 under French and German Council Presidency (2009/29/EC)

18 The RE Achievements from 2000 to 2013 Wind Power, PV & Bio-power Capacities World: 510 GW now from 47 GW in 2000 Europe: 213 GW now from 11 GW in 2000 Germany: 75 GW now from 0 GW in 1995 Wind Power, PV & Bio-power New Jobs World: 5.7 million Europe: 1.2 million (Germany ) World Bio-fuels (mainly the USA and Brazil): 100 bln litres from 16 bln litres in 2000

19 PV Capacity Installations this Century World: 130 GW now from 1.4 GW in 2000 Europe: 80 GW now from 0 GW in 2000 Germany: 35 GW now from GW in 2000

20 Wind Power Capacity Installations from 1995 World: 320 GW from 5 GW Europe: 115 GW from 1 GW Germany: 35 GW from 0 GW

21 New Bio-power Capacities this Century World: 89 GW now from 29 GW Europe: 28 GW from <10 GW Germany: 6.5 GW from.5 GW

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