Volker Quaschning (born 1969) is a German engineer and professor of

renewable energy systems The RES Group (Renewable Energy Systems) is a global renewable energy company which has been active in the renewable energy industry for over 30 years. Its core business is to develop, construct and operate large-scale, grid-connected renewable ...

at the

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft (''University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics'') or HTW Berlin in Berlin, Germany is the largest public University of Applied Sciences in Berlin and Eastern Germany. It has over 13,000 stud ...

, Germany.

Life

Quaschning studied

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

, then wrote his PhD on

photovoltaics Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially us ...

at the

Technische Universität Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. After obtaining his

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

low-carbon power Low-carbon power is electricity produced with substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions than conventional fossil fuel power generation. The energy transition to low-carbon power is one of the most important actions required to limit climate ...

system scenarios for Germany, he worked for the

German Aerospace Center The German Aerospace Center (german: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., abbreviated DLR, literally ''German Center for Air- and Space-flight'') is the national center for aerospace, energy and transportation research of Germany ...

in Almeria, Spain and lead research into

concentrated solar power Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver. Electricity is generated when ...

. In 2004, Quaschning was appointed professor of renewable energy systems at the

. Quaschning is the author of several books, including the scientific

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''Regenerative Energiesysteme'' (Renewable energy systems), first published in 1998. In 2015, the ninth edition of this book was released. The book has been translated in English, Arabian and Russian and a translation to the

Kazakh language The Kazakh or simply Qazaq (Latin: or , Cyrillic: or , Arabic Script: or , , ) is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official lan ...

is in progress. According to Panos Konstantin, the book is "highly recommendable". In 2016, an updated second edition in English was published.

Books

* ''Understanding Renewable Energy Systems''. Earthscan, London, 2nd edition 2016, . * ''Regenerative Energiesysteme.'' Hanser, Munich, 9th edition 2015, . * ''Erneuerbare Energien und Klimaschutz.'' Hanser, Munich, 3rd edition 2013, . * ''Obnovitelné zdroje energií'', Grada Publishing Prague, 2010, . * ''Mülltrenner, Müsliesser und Klimaschützer.'' Hanser, Munich, 2010, . * ''Renewable Energy and Climate Change.'' John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, 2010, . * ''Systemtechnik einer klimaverträglichen Elektrizitätsversorgung in Deutschland für das 21. Jahrhundert''. VDI-Verlag 2000,
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* ''Simulation der Abschattungsverluste bei solarelektrischen Systemen''. Phd Berlin 1996.

Selected scientific papers

* Schultz et al.: ''Laser-induced local phase transformation of CIGSe for monolithic serial interconnection: Analysis of the material properties''. In: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 157, (2016), pp 636–643, . * J. Weniger., T. Tjaden, V. Quaschning: ''Sizing of residential PV battery systems''.

Energy Procedia ''Energy Procedia'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal part of the '' Procedia'' series published by Elsevier. It is abstracted and indexed in EI-Compendex, Engineering Index, and Scopus. The journal publishes conference proceedings dealing wit ...

46 (2014), pp. 78–87, . * B. Stegemann, M. Schüle, C. Schultz, H-U. Pahl, J. Niederhofer, H. Endert, V. Quaschning, F. Fink: ''Laserbasierte Serienverschaltung von Chalkopyrit-Dünnschicht-Solarzellen''. In: Jahrbuch Oberflächentechnik 2012 (Band 68), pp. 356–362. * B. Stegemann, M. Schüle, C. Schultz, H-U. Pahl, J. Niederhofer, H. Endert, V. Quaschning, F. Fink: ''Novel Concept for Laser Patterning of Thin Film Solar Cells''. In: ''Laser Technik Journal 9'' Issue 1 (Januar 2012), pp. 25–29 . * N. Geuder, V. Quaschning: ''Soiling of irradiation sensors and methods for soiling correction''.

Solar Energy Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun that is harnessed using a range of technologies such as solar power to generate electricity, solar thermal energy (including solar water heating), and solar architecture. It is an essenti ...

80 (2006), pp. 1402–1409 . * V. Quaschning: ''Technical and economical system comparison of photovoltaic and concentrating solar thermal power systems depending on annual global irradiation''.

77 (2004), pp. 171–178, . * V. Quaschning, R. Kistner, W. Ortmanns: ''Influence of Direct Normal Irradiance Variation on the Optimal Parabolic Trough Field Size: A Problem Solved with Technical and Economical Simulations''. In: ''Journal of Solar Energy Engineering'' 124, (2002), pp 160-164, . * V. Quaschning, R. Hanitsch: ''Irradiance Calculations on Shaded Surfaces''.

62 Issue 5, 1998, pp. 369–375, . * V. Quaschning, R. Hanitsch: ''Numerical simulation of current-voltage characteristics of photovoltaic systems with shaded solar cells''. In: ''

'' 56, (1996), pp. 513-520, .

References

External links

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Homepage of HTW Berlin

Personal Homepage von Volker Quaschning
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quaschning, Volker 1969 births Living people German electrical engineers Engineers from Baden-Württemberg People associated with renewable energy Sustainability advocates HTW Berlin faculty People from Leonberg 20th-century German engineers 21st-century German engineers