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Publisher: Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien (IWR)
Sweden wants to end dependency on fossil fuels by 2020
Münster/Stockholm, 14. September 2005 – In a speech to the Swedish parliament, Prime Minister Göran Persson announced plans to expand the role of renewable energy sources further. The objective is for Sweden to end its dependency on fossil fuels by 2020. It is envisaged that the proportion of energy generated using renewable energy sources will be increased by 15 billion kilowatt hours over the next ten years.
Persson announced plans to extend wind power and the amount of energy generated from biomass. With regard to the heating sector, tax breaks should provide an incentive for owners of oil heaters to switch to alternative heating systems. The intention is to boost the amount of funding available for research and present a national program to increase energy efficiency as well.
“The use of renewable energy sources in the electricity, heating and fuel sectors is growing internationally under the pressure of climate risks, which are becoming increasingly obvious, and concerns about the mounting dependency on finite energy sources,” says Dr. Norbert Allnoch, head of the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (Internationales Wirtschaftsforum Regenerative Energien – IWR) in Münster (Germany). Allnoch also said that all leading industrialized nations will eventually realize the implications for their national industrial policies, causing innovation in the field of renewable energy technologies to escalate globally.
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In 1996, the International Economic Platform for Renewable Energies (IWR) was established as an independent and private service institution of the renewable energy industry. The IWR focuses on the fields of research, economic and policy consultation as well as media and international networks in the renewable or regenerative energies sector. One main objective of the IWR is to play an instrumental role in introducing and spreading awareness for an industrial, international business profile of the renewable energy industry.
Dr. Norbert Allnoch, Director of the International Economic Platform of Renewable Energies (IWR), 1995, on the definition: "According to our definition, the Renewable Energy Industry is one which takes an interdisciplinary approach to the issue of renewable energy supply (protecting both the climate and resources) and the construction of renewable plants and systems (industry policy for the three areas electricity, heat and fuel."Chronology of the Renewable Energy Industry - Important IWR contributions, including prizes and awards - 2007 Publication of the first structural analysis for a federal state according to the IWR-analysis method for renewable systems engineering and services�(study "Zur Lage der regenerativen Energiewirtschaft in NRW" )2007 International network-contacts:IWR-director Dr. Allnoch speaks with King Harald V. of Norway and �slaug Haga, norwegian minister of energy Presentation of the network / RENIXX in the USA, dialogue with McGinty, environment minister of Pennsylvania2006 IWR starts renewable stock index RENIXX� (