Hans-Josef Fell

Hans-Josef Fell (born 7 January 1952 in Hammelburg) is a German Member of Parliament of the Green Party who framed the German Renewable Energy Sources Law, together with Hermann Scheer. The law, ratified on 25 February 2000, guarantees cost-covering Feed-in Tariffs for electricity from biomass, wind power, and solar power, and aims to increase the percentage of renewable energy used in Germany by the year 2010. [http://www.nuclear-free.com/english/fell.htm Hans-Josef Fell, 2001 Nuclear-Free Future Solutions Award Recipient] ]

Fell has travelled to many countries to discuss clean energy. Following his visit to Turkey, plans for a nuclear power plant at Akkuyu were stopped, and Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit declared that his government would foster renewable technologies. In Taiwan, following Fell's television appearances and talks with individual policy makers, the government announced the withdrawal of its plans to build the country's fourth nuclear power plant, and its intent to phase out nuclear power by 2020. The French government has also shown great interest in drafting a renewable energy law similar to the one in Germany.

Hans-Josef Fell is the founder of the Energy Watch Group, an association of independent researchers and economics experts who are in the process of developing sustainable concepts to secure our global energy supply. [cite web
url=http://www.energywatchgroup.org/
title=Energy Watch Group
language=German] Additional key members are Dr. Werner Zittel, Jörg Schindler, Managing Director of Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik GmbH, Dr. Harry Lehmann, an expert from the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE) and Stefan Peter from the Institute for Sustainable Solutions and Innovations.

Fell has won awards for his home, which he built himself according to ecological criteria.

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