Featured in Europe’s solar reshuffle – 11-2014

Its just a question of time

Interview: In his new book, The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy, Winfried Hoffmann, former president of the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), provides a unique economic and industrial point of view about the current state of global energy, the increasing impact of solar and the impending paradigm shift that photovoltaics has triggered.

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pv magazine

27 Oct 2014

pv magazine: Your book looks at the shift from traditional energy towards 100% renewables. What are some of the main challenges facing that shift? Winfried Hoffmann: The main challenges are three: first, the electricity sector, both global and local. We are changing from the now centralized production and ways of distributing electricity down to the …

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