World Wind Energy Award 2017 for German journalist Dr. Franz Alt (WK-intern) - Malmö/Bonn - (WWEA) – On the occasion of WWEA's annual World Wind Energy Conference, WWEA has the tradition to honor personalities and organizations giving extraordinary contributions to the international dissemination of wind power and renewable energy. In these uncertain times, mass media is also playing a crucial role in the case of renewable energy. Hence the WWEA Board has concluded that it is time to honor a personality who helped to spread the vision of renewable energy based on facts to millions of citizens via mass media. The WWEA Board decided