Wolfgang Palz

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Wolfgang Palz (born July 6, 1937 in St. Wendel , Saar) is a German physicist and author .

Life and work

Wolfgang Palz his doctorate in 1965 at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe Dr. rer. nat. His doctoral thesis concerned the influence of impurities on the infrared sensitivity of the photovoltaic effect in cadmium sulfide (CdS) monocrystals. He also published his dissertation with the title minority carrier cadmium sulfide in the journal Physica Status Solidi .

From 1965 to 1970 he was Professor of Semiconductor Technology at the Grande École ENSEM at the University of Nancy , France.

This was followed by six years of developing photovoltaics for satellites and balloons at the Center national d'études spatiales (CNES, center of the French space agency) in Paris. During this time he organized the photovoltaic part of a UNESCO congress in 1973 under the title The Sun in the Service of Mankind and published books on solar energy generation, such as the work Solar Electricity , which UNESCO published in seven languages.

Palz was one of the initiators in founding the company Photon Power in El Paso (Texas) , which was to produce CdS thin-film solar cells. However, the production of such cells was stopped in 1978.

In 1977 he was appointed to Brussels by the European Commission , where he was head of the Department of Renewable Energies (including solar thermal systems and photovoltaics, wind and wave energy and the generation of energy from biomass ) for over 20 years . From 1998 until his age-related retirement in 2001, Palz represented the interests of renewable energies in the EU's office for development aid in Africa and the Caribbean.

Palz was a co-initiator of European solar energy conferences , in particular the international Solar Photovoltaic Energy Conference , which has been taking place since 1977. He also started the European Biomass Conference , which is dedicated to the use of biomass for energy generation and has been held annually since 1980. At this conference, the Johannes Linneborn Prize introduced by Palz will be awarded for special merits in this field. This award is named after Hanns Linneborn from Cologne, who, as a licensee of Georg Imbert, manufactured wood gasifiers in Germany and thus enabled biomass to generate energy for vehicles at an early stage. Palz also founded the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) in the 1980s . In response to his endeavors, the European Commission introduced the Becquerel Prize in order to honor an individual with special merits in the field of photovoltaics every year from 1989 onwards. In 2003 he was awarded this prize himself. In the 1990s, the EU funded major projects such as the new building of the Reichstag or the new satellite district of Pichling in Linz in Austria ( solarCity Linz ) as part of the Renewable Energies in Architecture and Design (READ) sub-program . Palz took part in the involvement of well-known architects such as Norman Foster and energy supply technology as a consultant.

From 2000 to 2002 he was a member of a commission of the German Bundestag in Berlin to define energy targets for Germany up to the year 2050. During the second part of his career, Palz campaigned for the use of renewable energies in the Third World . In 2006 he co-organized the Great Wall Solar Energy Conference in Beijing. Palz is chairman of the World Council Renewable Energy , Bonn / Paris.

Awards

  • 2002 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2003 Becquerel Prize for Photovoltaics
  • 2003 Poul laCour Prize from the European Wind Energy Association
  • 2005 Johannes Linneborn Prize European Energy from Biomass
  • 2010 Swiss Solar Prize
  • 2011 International Solar Energy Society (ISES) Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy

Publications

  • Wolfgang Palz: Solar Electricity . UNESCO, Paris, in seven languages, 1976–1978
  • Michael R. Starr, Wolfgang Palz: Photovoltaic power for Europe. TÜV Rheinland publishing house, Cologne 1987
  • M.Imamura, P.Helm, W.Palz: PV System Technology, A European Handbook. Stephens & Associates, UK, 1992, ISBN 0-9510271-9-0
  • E. Hau, J. Langenbrinck, W. Palz: WEGA Large Wind Turbines. Springer-Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-540-56592-2
  • G. Wrixon, AM. Rooney, W. Palz: Renewable Energy - 2000. Contributions from over 80 European experts on behalf of the EUREC Agency. Springer-Verlag, 1993, ISBN 3-540-56882-4
  • Wolfgang Palz et al .: Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun. Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2011, ISBN 978-981-4303-37-8
  • Wolfgang Palz (ed.): Solar Power for the World . CRC Press, 2014
  • Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz (eds.): Wind Power for the World . CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2013, ISBN 978-981-4411-90-5
  • Wim PM van Swaaij, Sascha RA Kersten, Wolfgang Palz (eds.): Biomass Power for the World . CRC, UK, 2015, CRC Press, 2015, ISBN 978-981-4613-88-0 .
  • Wolfgang Palz: The Triumph of the Sun: The Energy of the New Century. Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2018, ISBN 978-981-4800-06-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Palz and W. Ruppel: Minority carrier cadmium sulfide. Physica Status Solidi, Vol. 15, 1966
  2. ↑ a b Becquerel Prize. 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion, May 2003, Osaka , Japan, accessed November 28, 2018
  3. ↑ a b c d Solar Prize 2010 . Solar Agency, September 29, 2010, accessed November 28, 2018
  4. ^ European Biomass Conference & Exhibition. EUBCE 2019 website, accessed December 17, 2018
  5. ↑ a b Linneborn Prize. EUBCE website, accessed December 17, 2018
  6. ↑ EPIA Agenda . EU Agenda, Brussels, accessed on November 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ Becquerel Brochure . Becquerel Prize Committee 2017, accessed November 28, 2018
  8. ↑ a b Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun. Pan Stanford Publishing, Singapore, 2011, page xiii, accessed November 28, 2018
  9. ↑ a b ISES Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy. ISES, Recipient 2011, accessed November 29, 2018
  10. ^ The Triumph of the Sun: The Energy of the New Century. INES, October 18, 2018, accessed November 28, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Palz, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and author
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel , Saar