The Renewables-Now Aktiengesellschaft Zuerich awarded the SolarSuperState Prizes to countries with the most installed capacity of photovoltaics and wind power. The ranking is shown at: www.SolarSuperState.com

Vatican State, Germany and Czech Republic won a SolarSuperState Prize in the category Solar.

Denmark and Portugal won a SolarSuperState Prize in the category Wind.
Unilateralism versus multilateralism At the SolarSuperState Prize award ceremony, professor Cellier, Dr. Michel Fernex and Hans-Josef Fell favored the unilateralism approach of the SolarSuperState competition. The failure of the multilateralism approach of the United Nations was analyzed in different speeches.
Professor Cellier pointed out that the Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for oil is already in the range of 15. A further decline is unavoidable if an economy sticks to fossil energies. At an average EROI of 5 for all used energies, the national economies will collapse. Energy production with photovoltaics and wind turbines have EROIs around 20 and 40. Waiting and not switching to renewable energies will increase the costs for the national economies for a necessary shift to renewable energies later. Thus, it is in the national interest of every state to start immediately with unilateral activities towards a quick move towards renewable energies.

Dr. Michel Fernex (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) also favors the unilateralism promoted by the SolarSuperState competition. Fernex stated that United Nations (including its World Health Organization) and the International Atomic Energy Agency failed to protect the human civilization from the health damages caused by the use of nuclear and other fossil energies. The nuclear accident of Chernobyl 1986 caused damages to rodents which can be observed still 20 generations after the nuclear accident. It is likely that the genetic damages of the Belarus people caused by the Chernobyl fallout can be observed also for more than 20 generations.

Hans-Josef Fell (member of the German Parliament) analyzed the complete failure of the multilateralism approach of the United Nations to cope with the global warming. The United Nations conference in Durban 2011 showed that multilateralism does not work for protecting the climate and environment.

SolarSuperState approach
The SolarSuperState competition creates transparency about the progress of the states towards 100 % renewable energies. For most states of the world, it is likely that a national economy based only on renewable energies will require more than 1000 Watt per capita cumulative capacity of wind power and additionally more than 1000 Watt per capita cumulative capacity of photovoltaics. Today, no country has such a capacity of wind power or photovoltaics. The SolarSuperState competition wants to encourage states to continue and accelerate their way to 100 % renewable energies by the annual SolarSuperState Prize. The first edition is the SolarSuperState Prize 2011.

SolarSuperState Prize winner Germany
Germany has a cumulative capacity of photovoltaics of more than 200 Watt per capita. Low bureaucracy, priority access to the grid-system, priority to generating installations using renewable energy sources, stable investment conditions (with feed-in-tariff allowing a profit) lasting for already 11 years and a very positive opinion in the German people about photovoltaics are key success criteria. Hans-Josef Fell accepted the SolarSuperState Prize Category Solar as German citizen and as initiator of the Renewables Energy Act of Germany (EEG). Hans-Josef Fell said that a target of 330 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is necessary to avoid further economic damage from global warming. Besides the 100 % renewable energy goal, organic farming and other activities in forestry are urgent and possible today.

SolarSuperState Prize winner Czech Republic
The Czech Republic had a capacity of photovoltaics about 190 Watt per capita at the end of the year 2010. The photovoltaic boom in the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2010 was triggered by the European Solar Prize winner 2005 Dr. Neela Winkelmann-Heyrovská and five former members of the Czech parliament. The blueprint was the German Renewable Energy Act (EEG). Winkelmann-Heyrovská accepted the SolarSuperState Prize as citizen of the Czech Republic and initiator of the Czech Renewable Energy Act. Winkelmann-Heyrovská is consultant at the Czech platform for renewables which is the most important Czech political lobbying organization for renewable energies. Her key requests are

a) The Czech Renewable Energy Act should stay
b) Grid uptake priority for electricity from renewable energy sources
c) Transparent mechanism of the cost of support (feed-in tariff) to the electricity consumer
d) Guarantee of support to be extended form 15 to 20 years in the legislation
e) Continuing support of all photovoltaic installations including ground installations
f) The Platform for Renewables supports the Czech prime minister in his recent decisions to dismiss the CEO of CEZ (the state energy utility) Martin Roman and the minister of industry Martin Kocourek SolarSuperState Prize winner Denmark

The cumulative capacity of wind turbines is about 670 Watt per capita in Denmark (31.12.2010). The annually installed capacity of wind turbines peaked in the year 2000 with about 600 Megawatt. The SolarSuperState Prize is given for the past Danish efforts resulting in 22 % electricity supply by wind energy in 2010. The global wind turbine industry has its roots in Denmark. Milestone 1 of this development has been a state founded wind turbine development program in the 1980s. Milestone 2: Preben Maegaard helped the Danish industry in the 1980s with the Nordic Folkecenter as a technical development center for the wind turbine industry. Milestone 3: From 1980 to 2001, the development of wind energy in Denmark has been characterized by strong public involvement.
Milestone 4: Many (in the year 2010, about 2000 of the 5200) Danish wind turbines are owned by local windmill cooperatives.
Denmark won the first SolarSuperState Prize 2011 in the category Wind. Ole Vagn Christensen (23 years member of the Danish parliament, board of Nordic Folkecenter) accepted this prize a Danish citizen. He wished that the local people and the local communities were again substantially more involved in order to accelerate the wind energy use in Denmark. Especially, the 98 Danish communities should show more engagement in the production of wind energy.

SolarSuperState Prize winner Portugal
The cumulative capacity of wind turbines is about 370 Watt per capita in Portugal (31.12.2010). The annually installed capacity of wind turbines peaked in the year 2008 with about 700 Megawatt. José dos Santos accepted the SolarSuperState Prize in the Category Wind as citizen of Portugal. He stated that some 17 percent of the Portuguese electricity production in the year 2010 was from wind energy and that the district Viseu is the most active Portuguese district in wind energy.

Conclusion
For almost every state of the world it is possible to surpass within a few years the winners of SolarSuperState prize of 2011. In 2012, there will be the next update of the SolarSuperState competition.

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