News about Hermann Scheer
2010-03-18 Movie about Hermann Scheer. EnergyAutonomy
No nuclear power, no oil 100% renewable energy is possible! This is the message of a movie called Die 4. Revolution that has hit the theaters in Germany, featuring Herrmann Scheer.
2010-01-12 North Sea renewable energy network draws criticism. TopAgrar. Germany.
Hermann Scheer says that plans to link European offshore wind farms and hydroelectric plants with undersea cables go in the wrong direction because they would play in the hands of big energy corporations and their offshore farms.
According to Scheer decentralisation in the energy production sector should be the main goal and investments should be made on regional level.
2009-01-26 Launch of IRENA
On January 26th, IRENA, the International Renewable Energy Agency, and long-term brainchild of Hermann Scheer was launched in Bonn.
"IRENA will provide advice and support for both industrialised and developing countries for a rapid introduction of renewable energy", Scheer explained. "IRENA will offer practical and concrete policy advice, accelerate technology transfer and facilitate access to effective financial mechanisms."
2008-04-16 Endless Possibility. Guardian, UK.
Hermann Scheer is on his way to the UK to try to persuade Britain that old technologies are best left in the past and to convince the British government to invest into renewable energy.
