12. Global Atlas
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What share of my energy mix can
be supplied by renewable energy?
Where are the resources located?
What is the most cost-effective
combination of technologies?
What amount of investments does it
represent? How many jobs ?
Is there a large enough market for
sustaining a supply chain?
13. Bridge the gap between nations having access to the
necessary funding, technologies, and expertise to evaluate
their national potentials, and those deprived of those
elements.
Access to data and methods
Access to training materials and courses
Access to finance
Access to a network of experts
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15. 15
Global Renewable Energy Atlas
Steering Committee
Secretariat and coordination
IRENA
Solar and Wind Technical Group
CEM, 2010
Bioenergy Technical Group
GBEP, 2013
Geothermal Technical Group
2013
Hydropower Technical Group
2013
Marine Energies Technical Group
2014
End-user network
2012
16. How is the work organized?
• The Steering Committee meets during the IRENA Assembly. Intermediate meetings are
organized at IRENA Councils and other ministerial events – CEM, GBEP.
• The Secretariat is made of a team of 3 persons in IRENA Abu Dhabi.
• The working groups meet twice a year, during expert meetings or workshops . Experts
are designated by the participating countries, and invited by the Secretariat.
• The end-user group is constantly keep informed of the developments – newsletter,
website, and can contact the Secretariat at any time. The end-user network meets once a
year in Abu Dhabi WFES.
• Additional ad hoc task forces are created for a temporary issue – ex data quality for
solar and wind, capacity building for solar and wind.
• Participation is voluntary. Financing is shared between country contributions and
IRENA’s core budget.
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18. Bridge the gap between nations having access to the
necessary funding, technologies, and expertise to evaluate
their national potentials, and those deprived of those
elements.
Access to data and methods
Access to training materials and courses
Access to finance
Access to a network of experts
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20. WHAT IS THE GLOBAL
ATLAS?
Part I - Data Infrastructure and Sharing
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21. Existing application – maps.nrel.gov/SWERA
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FAO BEFS for Tanzania
Example of data integration from data to the Atlas
Existing application – http://www.solar-med-
atlas.org/
Mali solar and wind
30. Intellectual property?
• If the data has IP restrictions – signature of a data sharing
agreement with IRENA
• IP remains with the data owner
• Data sharing and download can be limited on demand
• Service can be modified or stopped from data owner’s end
• The catalog can handle private and public data 30
31. WHAT IS THE GLOBAL
ATLAS?
Part II - Data visualization and analysis
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39. Using the interface in your own website
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Data are promoted in an
interactive manner without having
to develop an online GIS.
Just add 1 line:
<iframe style="border: none;"
width="512" height="256"
src="http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/?m
ap=299&mode=static"></iframe>
Or <iframe style="border: none;"
width="512" height="256"
src="http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/ifra
me.html?map=299&mode=static"
></iframe>
40. What is the Global Atlas?
• A free, open source, open standards Global Spatial Data Infrastructure
A global public library of renewable resource maps – 300 + datasets included
The information is not copied or duplicated, and existing services are
integrated
Data owners use freely the platform to disseminate and reference their own
datasets
Depending on the IP restrictions, the links can be used by the Atlas online
GIS, the data owners and their project partners, and the general public
• The GIS interface is online and freely accessible. Basic users can access
information and perform basic analyses.
• ‘Advanced’ users can create their own online project maps, embed those in their
webportal, and use the online tools on their own datasets. 40
41. Ongoing work and next steps
• Integration of Countries’ solar and wind data – display,
point data
• Additional datasets coming online – DTU, CENER, NASA, others
• Significant improvements to the Atlas GIS
• Capacity Building for the Atlas
• Roadmap for Geothermal energy
• Roadmap for Bioenergy
• Hydropower?
• Technical Assistance
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Notes de l'éditeur
How does it work?The Global Atlas became available online in January 2013. The system is totally decentralised, and connects to databases on different servers worldwide. The list of servers is not limited, so many institutes and countries can contribute quality information. Data sources are connected based on standards developed by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). The data remains property of the data holder, and no transfer of archive is necessary. The data can be maintained and updated easily by providers. This choice of data-sharing technology choice enables the initiative to be open and inclusive.If you wish to know more, all tutorials for the Atlas are provided online, in the form of short videos.
The IRENA global atlas is a large international initiative, putting you a click away from major data sources to estimate your solar and wind potentials. This is an example on the region, showing the average winds calculated over 30 years, all protected areas, and population density every 1km. Zoom in, and start looking into areas of interest. You can even add your own data to improve the analysis.
The Atlas does not replace a ground measurement campaigns, but it can help you explore for suitable sites at which ground measurements can be done. Some tools are under development to help you assess resource potentials in particular areas. This is an example of an existing tool which gives you access to historic values of the resource for every location. Some more advanced features allow you to perform site ranking, or highlight opportunity areas, for further investigation.The interface is very flexible, and even lets you create your own project, pulling data from a catalog of 300 wind and solar resource maps.