1. Photovoltaic Integration in Architecture (Stefan Behling)
2. The Modern Energies: A Global Overview (Wolfgang Palz)
3. China’s Wind Power, Half a Century of Forging Ahead (Qin Haiyan)
4. On the Path to Solar Power Grids (Jürgen Sachau)
5. The Evolution of Biomass and the Role of EUBCE (Angela Grassi)
6. What Role for Nuclear Power in the Ongoing Energy Revolution (Mycle Schneider)
Biography
Wolfgang Palz is a German physicist and a EU Official (retired). He holds a doctorate in physics and photovoltaics from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. For more than half a century, he has been a global leader of the development of solar energy and other renewables. As an official of the European Commission in Brussels, he managed PV development in Europe for 20 years. From 2000 to 2002, he was a member of an “Enquête Commission” of the German Parliament on the German energy perspective on the horizon 2050. Later, he was a consultant for the EU Commission on PV program for the underprivileged in Latin America. Recognized as one of the fathers of PV and wind power success in today’s global energy markets, he has received several recognitions, including the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy (2011), the 2025 European Solar Prize, and a call to join the Chinese World Wind Energy Academy established in late 2025. He is a bearer of an Order of Merit of the German Republic.
