Chairman's Initiative for PV
Dr. Lincot will present this Chairman's Initiative for PV to the audience on the occasion of the Opening Session of the
23rd EU PVSEC in Valencia, Monday 1st September, from 10:30.
International Call of Scientists for an Accelerated Worldwide Deployment of Photovoltaic Conversion of Solar Energy
Humanity is facing a dramatic challenge created by the progressive exhaustion of fossil fuels and the onset of climate change most probably due to CO2 pollution. The utilization of renewable energies, as a major component of the global action, is becoming an absolute and urgent necessity
Photovoltaics, which is the direct production of electricity from solar energy, is a key solution for universal sustainable energy production. It has unique characteristics:
- It is safe, clean, robust, efficient and highly scalable technology, making its implementation very easy all over the world. It can be used both for developed countries and for developing countries.
- It is already associated with a fast growing and dynamic industry with a growth rate of about 40% per year.
- Photovoltaics electricity costs are becoming more and more competitive. However stronger efforts for R&D in Photovoltaics will allow accelerating this evolution and saving precious time.
- Photovoltaics is the child of modern solid state/electronics science and technology. The prospects of large improvements of conversion efficiencies from scientific and technological progress are very high. R&D in Photovoltaics will benefit from novel developments in Physics, Chemistry, Materials Research and Biology.
- Photovoltaics has practically unlimited potential. It will benefit all populations and future generations.
Therefore, we, as scientists from various domains, consider that PV solar electricity has to be a key part of the response that is needed NOW to solve crucial energy, environmental and climate concerns. On the basis of the remarkable results of developing Photovoltaics by public action, via feed-in laws, we ask for the launch of a strong concerted action at the international level to accelerate worldwide photovoltaic solar energy production and its enrichment through large research, development, cooperation, and education programs.
Dr. Daniel Lincot, France (General Chairman of the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, Spain)
If you want to sign the call or give some comments or proposals, please contact: daniel-lincot@enscp.fr
List of scientists and supports by alphabetical order (as of 12th August 2008)
D. Abou-Ras (Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy, Berlin, Germany), M. Acciarri (Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca, Italy), C. Algora (Instituto de Energia Solar, Spain), Zh. Alferov (Nobel Laureate, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), G. Almonacid (University of Jaén. Spain), V. M. Andreev (Head of Photovoltaics Lab.,Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russia), P. Alpuim (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), H. Arakawa (Tokyo University of Science, Japan), T. Anderson (University of Florida, USA), C. Ballif (Institute of Microtechnology IMT, Switzerland), P. Banda (Director General. Institute for Concentration Photovoltaics Systems – ISFOC, Spain), K. Barnham (Imperial College London, UK), A.K. Barua (General Chairman PVSEC18), G. Bauer (University of Oldenburg, Germany), M. Belhamel (Director, Renewable Energy Development Centre, Algeria), V. Bermudez (Institute of R&D for Photovoltaic Energy IRDEP, France), J.C. Bernede (University of Nantes, Frances), J. Bertomeu (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), R. Bhattacharya (National Renewable Energy Laboratory NREL, USA), B. Bibek (Director Solar Energy Centre New Delhi, Vice Chair of 18th PV Conference-2009), A. Blakers (Australian National University, Australia), A. Bouazzi (University of Tunis El-Manar, Tunisia), J.E. Bourée (Ecole Polytechnique, France), C. Brabec (Konarka, USA), H. Branz (NREL, USA), G. Bremond (Institut des Nanotechnologies de Lyon, France), F. Briones (Institute of Microelectronics of Madrid, CNM-CSIC, Spain), L. Brohan (Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel, Nantes, France), M. Burgelman (Gent University Belgium), J. Byrne (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nobel Prize Laureate 2007, Director of Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, USA), D. Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel), J. Carabe (Acciona Solar, Spain), M. Cassir (Head of Fuel Cell Group, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris, France), K. Shane-Ching (Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Toulouse, France), E. Chassaing (IRDEP, France), ), Frederic Chandezon (CEA Grenoble, France), P. Chatterjee (Head Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), P. Chauduri (Head Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), Y.B. Civel (Direteur Observatoire des energies renouvelables, France), D. Cohen (Director, Oregon Sunrise, USA), Al. Compaan (University of Toledo, USA), M. Contreras (NREL, USA), A. Cravino (University of Angers, France), A. B. Cristóbal López (Project manager, Instituto de Energia Solar, Spain), A. Cuevas (Australian National University, Australia), M. Dachraoui (Tunis University, Tunisia), A. De Lillo (Resp. Fonti Rinnovabili, ENEA, Italy), E. Dalquiele (Institute of Physics, Montevideo, Uruguay), P. Destruel (Institut Laplace, Toulouse), B. Dimmler (Managing Director Würth Solar, Germany), J. Dupin (CERN, Switzerland), N. Dhere (Program Director, Florida Solar Energy Center, USA), Z. Djebbour (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), C. Dragon-Lartigau (University of Pau, France), J. Dupin (CERN, Switzerland), K. Durose (Director, Durham Centre for Renewable Energy, UK), M. Eckhard (President, American Council On RE, ACORE, Washington DC), A. Ennaoui (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Germany), L. Escoubas (IM2NP – Paul Cézanne University, France), A. Etcheberry (University of Versailles, France), A. Fahrenbruch (University of Stanford, USA), D. Fairman (Ben Gourion's University, Israel), C. Ferekides (University of South Florida), G. Férey (Chemistry, French Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Chemical Society France), F. Finger (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany), V. Ftenakis (BNL and Columbia University, USA, co-initiator of the Grand Solar Plan), D. Fuertes Marron (Instituto de Energía Solar-ETSIT, Spain), K. Fukui ( Manager PV development department, Kyocera, Japan), T. Fuyuki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan), R. Gamboa (Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal) T. Glenn (NREL, USA), G. Goaer (Photowatt, France), A. Goetzberger (Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy, President of the Becquerel PV Committee, Germany)X.G. Gong, Professor of Physics, Dean of Research and Director of center for computational sciences and engineering , Fudan University, China), M. Green ( Alternative Nobel Prize, Director of the Centre for Third Generation Photovoltaics, New South Wales University, Australia), J.F. Guillemoles (Head of New concepts project, IRDEP, France), T. Gutiérrez (Head of Photovoltaic Polycrystalline Materials, Energy Department, CIEMAT, Spain), A. Hamidat (Head of Photovoltaic applications, Centre for the Development of Renewable Energy, Algeria), S. Hayase (Kyushu Institute of Technology , Japan), C. Heske (University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA), J. Herrero (CIEMAT, Spain), W. Hoffmann (Vice president of European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), CTO Energy and Environmental Solutions at Applied Materials, Germany), J. Hüpkes (Research Centre Jülich, Germany), J.C. Hummelen (University of Groningen, The Netherlands), H. L. Hwang (Taiwan), Y. Hyashi (University of Tsukuba), A. Ihlal (Laboratory of materials and Renewable Energy, Agadir, Marocco), H. Iida (Namics, Japan), O. Inganäs (Linköping University, Sweden), A. Jaeger-Waldau (European Commission Joint Research Center, Italy), R. Janssen (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands), J. Jimeno (Director of the Technological Institute of Microelectronics, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain), M. Kane (Director of the Laboratory of Semiconductors and Solar Energy, University Cheikh Anta DIOP , Senegal), V.K Kapur (President CEO ISET, USA), E. Katz (Dept. of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), R. Kishore (National Physical Laboratory, India), H. Koinuma (Special Advisor to National Inst. for Materials Science, Japan), M. Konagai (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), F. Krebs (Denmark), M. Krunks (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), J. Krustok (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), S. Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India), K. Kushiya (Deputy General Manager, Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K, Japan), A. Labeyrie (Astrophysics, French Academy of Sciences), B. Lambert (Director Worldwatch Francophonie), C. W. Lan (Chairman of Taiwan Photovoltaic Industrial Association (TPVIA), Taiwan), M. Leduc (President of the French Physical Society, France), M. Lemiti (Head of PV Group, Institute of Nanosciences of Lyon, France), D. Levi (NREL, USA), N. Le Quan (Head of Research and Development, Photowatt, France), A. Liébard (Président de l' Observatoire des Energies Renouvelables et de la Fondation Energies pour le Monde, France), D. Lincot (Chairman of the 23rd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, Valencia, Institute of Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy –IRDEP, France), A. Luque (Becquerel PV Prize, Director of the Solar Energy Institute, Spain), I. Luque-Heredia (CTO - Solfocus Europe), M. Lux-Steiner (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin), E. Macias (President of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), President of the Alliance for Rural Electrification (ARE)), A. Madan (MVSystems Inc., USA), Y. Maigne (Director of the Foundation Energies pour le Monde, Member of the French Academy of Technologies, France), G. Malliaras (Cornell University, USA), X. Mathew (Centro de Investigacion en Energia-UNAM, Mexico), P. Malbranche (Institut National de l'Energie Solaire, France), D. Marsacq (Director of New Energies Technologies Department –CEA, France), S. Martinuzzi (Université Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, France ), U. Masayoshi (Chubu University, Japan), D. Mayer (President of the European Renewable Energy Centres Agency –EUREC, Ecole des Mines Paris, France), B. McNelis (Managing Director, ITPower, UK), E. Mellikov (Tallin University of Technology, Estonia), D. Mencaraglia (Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France), J. C. Muller (INESS, France), T. Nakada (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan), J. Nelson (Imperial College London, UK), S. Niki (AIST, Japan), R. Noufi (Vice President for Research, Solopower, USA), A. Nozik (Director, Colorado Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion, USA), S. Palomares-Sánchez (Facultad de Ciencias, UASLP, Mexico), W.Palz (Chairman World Council Renewable Energy, Brussels/Paris), N. Pearsall (Vice-President of European Renewable Energy Centres Agency –EUREC, University of Northumbria, UK), A. Penzias (Nobel Prize, New Enterprise Associates), E. Perezagua (President of EU-PV Technology Platform, Isofoton, Spain), C. Perkins (NREL, USA), V. Perraki (University of Patras, Greece), D. Mataras (University of Patras, Greece), T. Peterson (Solar Power Consulting, USA), Physical Society France, S. Pizzini (University of Milano Bicocca and Chairman of Nedsilicon spa, Italy), L. Pirozzi (ENEA, Roma, Italy), J. Poortmans (IMEC, Belgium), M. Powalla (ZSW, Germany), Haiyan Qin (China General Certification Center, Beijing, China), F. Rabago Bernal (Instituto de Fisica, UASLP, Mexico), S. Ray (Program Chair of PVSEC18, Energy Research Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India), B. Rech (Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany), A. Ricaud (University of Savoie, France), P. Roca I Cabarrocas (Ecole Polytechnique, France), A. Rockett (University of Illinois, USA), A. Romeo (University of Verona, Italy), M. Rosso (Ecole Polytechnique, France), T. Saitoh (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan), E. Sader (Physics Department, University of Birzeit, Palestine), G. Sala (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Instituto de Energia Solar), W. Sampath (Colorado State University, USA), H. Scheer (Alternative Nobel Prize, General Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy, Germany), R. Scheer (Hahn Meitner Institute, Germany), R. E.I. Schropp (Section Leader of Nanophotonics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands), C. Sentein (CEA SAclay, France), Dinghuan Shi (Chairman, China Renewable Energy Society, Beijing, China), Zhengrong Shi (Chairman and CEO Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd., China), P.K. Sing (head of PV Group, National Physical Laboratory, New Dehli, India), W.C. Sinke (ECN, The Netherlands, and EU PV Technology Platform), J. Sites (Colorado State University, USA), A. Shah (PV Becquerel Prize, Institute of Microtechnologies, Switzerland), G. Sissoko (Université Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal), A. Slaoui (President of the European Materials Research Society, France), I. Solomon (Ecole Polytechnique, French Academy of Sciences, France). J. Song (Korea Institute of Energy Research, Korea), B.J. Stanbery (CEO, HelioVolt Corporation, USA), R. Tena-Zeara (Institute of Materials, Microelectronics and Nanosciences of Paris East, France), I. Tiginyanu (Vice President of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, Moldova), A. Tiwari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), M. Topic (University of Ljubiana, Slovenia), P. Torchio (Institute of Materiasl, Microelectronics and nanosciences of Marseille, France), N. Usami (Tohoku University, Japan), M. Ushijima (Tokyo Electron LTD, Japan), A. Vallêra (Vice- Rector of the University of Lisboa, Portugal), J. Van Duren (Nanosolar, USA), M. Vanecek (Head, Dept. Optical Crystals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic), P.Varadi (Co-founder of Solarex, Founder of PV GAP, Geneva, Switzerland), P. Vasseur (Past Director of the Research Centre of Ecole Polytechnique, France) T. Wada (Ryukoku University, Japan) , J. Vedel (CNRS, France), S. Wakao (Waseda University, Japan), S. Wei (NREL, USA), S. Wiedeman (Global Solar, USA), S. Williams (Plextronics, Inc., USA), N. Wyrsch (Institute of Microtechnology IMT, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland ), M. Yamaguchi (Becquerel Prize of the EU-PVSEC and the 2008 winner of the William Cherry Award from IEEE, Director of the Super High-Efficiency Photovoltaics Research Center, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan), T. Yamaguchi (Wakayama National College of Technology, Japan), A. Yamamoto (University of Fukui, Japan), S. Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan), I. Youm (University Cheikh Anta DIOP, Dakar, Senegal), T. Yoshida (Gifu University, Japan), S. Yoshikawa (Kyoto University, Japan), K. Yoshino (University of Miyazaki, Japan), A. Zaban (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), M. Zeman (Head of Solar Cell group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), M. Zazoui (President of the Association for the Development of Renewable Energies of Marocco, Hassan II Mohammedia University), Meifang Zhu (Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS), Beijing, China).
