DGAP-News: SolarWorld Einstein Award 2010 presented to Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus in festive ceremony
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Other accolades awarded to junior scientist and deceased U.S. solar pioneer
SolarWorld AG bestowed the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award upon the Nobel
Peace Prize winner and founder of the Grameen Bank Prof. Muhammad Yunus.
The professor of economics from Bangladesh is thus being honored for his
break-through concept of micro-credits for the poor, with the help of which
millions of people worldwide managed the jump from poverty to
self-sufficiency.
'Grameen has given me an unshakeable faith in human creativity and the firm
belief that human beings are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and
poverty,' declared Prof. Muhammad Yunus in his ceremonial address.
Micro-credits have so far made possible among many other things the
installation of more than 400,000 small solar power systems that ensure the
energy supply to people in rural regions of Bangladesh that are far from
the national grid.
'A key against poverty is decentrally available energy. With the help of
the micro-credits families can afford small solar power systems to secure
their incomes. Prof. Muhammad Yunus has shown how with an idea and a great
deal of courage people are given a future,' said Dr.-Ing. E. h. Frank
Asbeck, chairman and CEO of SolarWorld AG, during the festive award
ceremony on the occasion of the 25th European Photovoltaic Conference,
September 6, in Valencia, Spain. Since 2005, the group has been presenting
this prestigious award of the solar industry to personalities who have
acquired merits in photovoltaic technology. Since 2006, the group has
additionally presented the SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award to young
scientists in solar technology.
SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award goes to Fraunhofer junior scientist
The prize winner of SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award 2010 is young
scientist Dr. Christian Reimann of Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated
Systems and Building Element Technology (IISB) in Erlangen. In his thesis,
the mineralogist deals with the formation of silicon crystals and the
prevention of impurities in silicon melt. This can increase the degree of
efficiency of solar cells and thus reduce the costs for solar power. The
process developed by Reimann has been patented in the meantime.
Honorary SolarWorld Einstein Award for Walt Ratterman
For his solar commitment the group posthumously bestowed an Honorary
SolarWorld Einstein Award upon Walt Ratterman, thus honoring in a very
special way the solar pioneer so tragically killed in the disastrous
earthquake in Haiti in January. As a co-founder of the U.S. organization
SunEnergy Power, he passionately dedicated himself to spadework in the
poorest countries of the world. Ratterman was a cooperation partner in the
Solar2World program run by SolarWorld AG and was responsible among other
things for the solar electrification of hospitals in Haiti. The award was
personally received by his family.
About SolarWorld AG: The SolarWorld AG Group (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a
worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high quality, crystalline
solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar
production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and
modules all the way to turn-key solar systems, including recycling, the
group combines all stagesof the solar value chain. The central business
activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution
trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry.
Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. Production sites are to be
found in Germany, the United States and South Korea. The group's largest
production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany and Hillsboro in the
U.S. State of Oregon. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy.
Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid
solar-power solutions in emerging economies and developing countries,
exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld
employs more than 2,900 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock
exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX,ÖkoDAX, Dow Jones STOXX 600 as well as in the sustainability indices
DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI.
Contact SolarWorld AG
Press: Tel.-No.: 0228/55920-400, E-Mail: press(at)solarworld.de
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