ABSTRACT
It was at the beginning of July 1998 in the old imperial city of
Vienna, which has become a remarkable wealthy town out of the
ruins from the Great War. The Hofburg, residence of the Habsburg
emperors for several hundred years, was the place for the Second
World Conference on Photovoltaic Solar Energy and thus to start a
new era for the power production system at least in Europe. Austria
recently took over the European Union Presidency for the second
half of that year. The first world conference of that kind took place
four years ago in Hawaii and the initiative came now like before from
Hermann Scheer, the prophet of the Solar Age.
