GEOSS AIP-6 Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 6 - Energy Scenario: Global Renewable Energy Atlas - Response Leader: MINES ParisTech Response Participants:

GEOSS AIP-6Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 6

- Energy Scenario: Global Renewable Energy Atlas -

Response Leader: MINES ParisTech

Response Participants: IRENA - DLR - MASDAR - NREL - ECREEE

International Initiative Support: Global Renewable Energy Atlas (Lead by IRENA)

Kick-off Meeting March 28-29NOAA Silver Spring MD, USA.

Point Of Contact : Lionel MENARD - MINES ParisTech

Scenario’s expected innovations

• Solidify and enhance the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) for the prospection of Solar and Wind potentials

• Expand to new Renewable Energy Sources

– Geothermal, Bio-energy and Hydropower

• Provide a demonstrator for renewable energy potential assessment. This demonstrator will focus on the ECOWAS (Economic Community Of West African States) region using ECREEE ( ECOWAS Regional Centre for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency) partners datasets.

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) #1

• Enhance and solidify the Geospatial Data Catalog Capabilities• Helper Apps• GEOSS Data Core and GEOSS No Monetary Charge labels• Provide guidance to data providers to Data Quality information in Metadata• Work with Data Sharing WG, DAB and GWP to ensure Metadata consistency

Geospatial Data Catalog (http://geocatalog.webservice-energy.org)

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) #2

• Develop Tools for evaluating Solar and Wind potentials (WPS)

WebGIS Client (http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/)

Data Providers Network

• 26 additional countries joined the Global Atlas IRENA initiative, bringing the total to 39.

• The participating countries are: Albania, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Grenada, Honduras, India, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal,

Seychelles, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tunisia, UAE, Uganda, UK, Uruguay, USA, and Yemen.

• Need to contact, evaluate, guide and integrate resources from the participating countries into the GSDI

• Enforce new participating countries resources to be compatible with GEOSS recommendations on interoperability.

Renewable Energy Potential Assessment Scenario Use case: ECOWAS Region

Methodology

User’s concerns for developing RE

Need to know about available resources, socio-economic data and policy information to analyze the technical and economic potentials

Potentials can be used to create •scenarios of technology deployment, •strategies for market development •and political and financial instruments

Issues tackled in the Global Renewable Energy AtlasTargeted users: Policy planners, Decision makers, consulting companies

• Develop a comprehensive information platform on the potential of renewable energy

• Provides resource maps from leading technical institutes worldwide

• Develop tools for evaluating the technical potential of renewable energies

• Function as a catalyst for policy development and energy planning, and support investors in entering renewable energy markets.

• Develop a scenario for energy potential assessment providing maps of opportunity areas on the ECOWAS region

Work Plan

• March - December: Contact participating countries and integrate resources

• July: Finalize the ECREEE energy potential assessment scenario definition

• December: Finalize the WebGIS Client, Catalog and potential assessment tool – Clients ready for testing– Scenario ready to run– Demo capture