Dr. Hermann Scheer is a social-economist, author, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the German House of Parliament since 1980, President of EUROSOLAR, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy

Busting Myths, Leading Transition. The architect of Germany’s successful renewable energy law describes what it will take to effect a global shift. [2007 May/June]

This article is republished courtesy of SOLAR TODAY, the award-winning magazine published by the American Solar Energy Society.

Solar Solution, Moving from a Fossilized Economy to a Solar Economy from Resurgence Magazine [2004?]

"Only the deliberate replacement of fossil-fuel consumption by solar energy will end the destructive dynamics of the fossilized global economy and its economic structure, and create a viable, varied and human-scale dynamics of development."

Solar Economy [2004]

"The Solar Economy offers an alternative programme to the Kyoto Protocol. It details the links between energy resources and economic structures that have given rise to the fossil energy economy, and maps the dynamic road towards renewable energy that will lead to a new and sustainable global economy.

"Fossil resources brought the industrialized countries their prosperity. Yet now that their cost outweighs their benefits, fossil resources may bring those self-same countries to their knees. It is the principal thesis of this book that renewable energy, by contrast, brings greater social benefits the more widely it is used, to the point where it fully replaces all fossil energy. There can be no sound reason for making this revolution of our resource base contingent on obligations agreed under international treaties."

A review of The Solar Economy by Simon Roberts [2004]

Hydrogen - Revolution or Illusion? A Debate on Hydrogen between Hermann Scheer and Jeremy Rifkin at DaimlerChrysler [2003]

Energy is a driving force for our civilisation, Solar Advocate, by Alenka Burja, [2001?]

"Hermann Scheer´s feed-in electricity law has made Germany the world leader in production of wind energy in only ten years – World political conflicts mainly stem from a lack of availability of energy resources – Many African countries spend up to 80 % of their income for fossil fuels – Introducing renewable energy technologies is a big step for the whole world economy."