Uruguay wins SolarSuperState Prize 2017 in category SolarSuperState
20 October 2017: The laudations of the SolarSuperState Prizes 2017 for Uruguay, Nevada and the Moapa River Indian Reservation can be found in the press section for download.
On Friday, 20 October 2017, inside the International Energy and Sustainability Conference 2017 in Farmingdale College (a New York State University), Ricardo Baluga, deputy chief of mission of the embassy of Uruguay in the United States of America, fetched the first SolarSuperState Prize 2017 in the category SolarSuperState on behalf of Uruguay. Darren Daboda, chairman of the tribal council of the Moapa River Indian Reservation (surrounded by the US state Nevada) fetched the
1. SolarSuperState Prize in the category Federal State for Nevada
and the
1. SolarSuperState Prize in the categoryRegion on behalf of the Moapa River Indian Reservation.
SolarSuperState Ranking 2017 category SOLAR topten
14.8.2017: Japan and Australia move up in the Solar topten list of SolarSuperState Ranking 2017 category Solar. Japan overtakes Italy (4), Belgium (5) and Vatican City State (6) and is now on rank 3. Frontrunner Liechtenstein widens gap to second Germany. European Union states, Vatican City State and San Marino (7) continue to stay in waiting positions in photovoltaics. Australia (rank 9) outdistances Greece (rank 10). A constant photovoltaic deployment speed of the calendar year 2016 (+39 Watt per capita per year net annual additions) would enable Australia to pass some inactive European states in the SolarSuperState Ranking of next year. No new state enters the Solar topten in 2017. Table as png image is in the press section available.
Sweden wins SolarSuperState Prize 2017 in category Wind
10 May 2017: The press release, press photo of the SolarSuperState Prize for Sweden, SolarSuperState Ranking 2017 category Wind, and the top ten of the annual additions wind power 2016 can be found in the press sectionn for download as pdf, jpg, png images.
The SolarSuperState Prize 2017 is split into 2 locations:
On Wednesday, 10 May 2017, at 15 hours in Hotel Gekas Ullared.
On Friday, 20 October 2017, at 10 hours inside the International Energy and Sustainability Conference 2017 in Farmingdale College (a New York State University).
Int. Energy Sust. Conf. 2017 with SolarSuperState Prize
On Friday, 20 October 2017, the second day of the International Energy and Sustainability Conference in Farmingdale College (a New York State University) is with SolarSuperState Prizes 2017
Annual Report 2015 SolarSuperState Association
On 24 November 2016, the SolarSuperState Association published its Annual Report 2015 with a 5 year forecast of its president for cumulative global capacities of photovoltaics and wind power (see page 4 of the Annual Report 2015, download in press section)
June 30 SolarSuperState Prize 2016 Koeln
On 30 June, the SolarSuperState Association awarded the 1. SolarSuperState Prizes 2016 in the categories Wind and Solar to the Kingdom of Denmark and to Liechtenstein. The same day the association published the top ten of the SolarSuperState Ranking 2016 in both categories Wind and Solar. Press releases, tables and images can be downloaded in the press section.
3 meter sea level rise and the response
3 meter sea level rise from West Antarctica has been proven to happen in the future. Holland, Florida, Alexandria, Bangla Desh are threatened. The response of the SolarSuperState Association is a 5 point policy plan to be implemented unilaterally by states as soon as possible including 100 % renewable energies, manure to biogas, organic farming, biocoal for economy and soils, afforestation.
See more in the press section (Annual Report 2014).
British Hinkley Point C nuclear electricity feed-in tariff
Zurich, 29.12.2015: SolarSuperState Association supports Greenpeace Energy and 9 other organizations that filed a plea at the Court of Justice of the European Union against the decision of the European Commission approving the British feed-in tariff for nuclear electricity (Hinkley Point C).
See more in the press section.
SolarSuperState Ranking per continent top 3 solar
Zurich, 18.11.2015: The top 3 solar states per continent are sorted by rank in the SolarSuperState Ranking 2015 in the following sequence:
Europe > Asia > America > Africa
See more in the press section.