Eicke Weber: Hermann Scheer's 80th BD 4/29/1944 (Scheer founded the solar revolution)

Sean White‘s Solar and Energy Storage Podcast

Hermann Scheer (RIP) was a German politician who is responsible for making grid-
connected solar profitable in about the year 2000 as he brought the German policy for
reimbursing people for solar energy, so that they would make a profit. This brought
about years where over half of the World’s installed PV was in Germany. This created
the modern solar industry and kick-started modern PV manufacturing. If it were not for
Hermann Scheer, we would probably be 10 years behind where we are now with PV
prices and installed capacity. Eicke Weber was a friend of Hermann Scheer and Eicke
was also the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems for 10 years,
which is the European equivalent of NREL. Eicke brought Intersolar to San Francisco,
he was on UC Berkely Faculty and has done a million other things, while remaining a
really nice person. I am proud to call Eicke a friend. Hermann Sheer’s Legacy www.ilsr.org/hermann-scheers-feed-tariff-legacy-75-worlds-solar-pv/ Bill Brooks www.brooksolar.com Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en Madam Mi Fusion National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) www.NREL.gov Governor Jerry Brown California Solar Initiative (CSI) SNEC World’s Largest Renewable Energy Conference www.pv.snec.org.cn Nancy and George Lightman Hans-Josef www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Josef_Fell Swanson’s Law Feed in Tariff (FIT) Sultan Al Jaber Irena www.IRENA.org International Solar Energy Society (ISES) www.ises.org PV manufacturing in China Deng Xiaoping IRA John Kerry Deng Xiaoping CO2 PV Technology and Market Developments Global Shifts in Energy Policy Clean Tech Business Club www.cleantechbusiness.club Learn more at www.solarSEAN.com and be sure to get NABCEP certified by taking
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