Presentation by Carsten Hoyer Klick (DLR) on the Global Atlas, synergies with EnerGeo and the Clean Energy Ministerial.

1. Clean Energy Ministerial Global Atlas for Solar
and Wind Energy
Carsten Hoyer-Klick, Nicolas Fichaux (IRENA), Jake
Badger (DTU/Wind), Thomas Wanderer, Dan Getman
(NREL)
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2. History of the political process
• Within the technology action plans of the Major Economies Forum for
COP 15 in Copenhagen, a need for a global atlas for solar and wind
energy was identified
• The process was split in the Major Economies Forum and the Clean
Energy Ministerial. A multilateral working group for solar and wind energy
was formed, headed by Denmark, Germany and Spain.
• The global atlas is developed in the framework of this multilateral working
group.
• IRENA joined and became the secretariat of the process
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3. History of the political process
• The atlas was presented at the ministerial meeting in April 2012 in London
and officially launched during the IRENA General Assembly in January
2013.
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4. Member Countries
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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, Yemen.

5. Partners
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6. Target
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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7. Open Architecture – Collaborative Information
Systems
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Data
Provider
Data
Provider
User interfaces
Solar
resources
A (e.g. DLR)
Solar
resources
B (e.g. NREL)
Live
Sensor
Data
Measurement stations,
Sattelite data
Knowledge
Database
Policy data base
e.g. IEA, UNEP,
REN21
Communication with open
and standardized internet
protocols
Set up of the architecture within
the framework of GEOSS
Data
catalog

8. Providing Data to the Global Atlas
• Data must be available on a webservice following the OGC (Open
Gespatial Consortium) standards, WMS (Web Mapping Service), WFS
(Web Feature Service), WCS (Web Coverage Service)
• Data usually stays with the provider and the provider keeps IPR and
maintenance.
• Alternative hosting options e.g. though Masdar are available if data
owners do not want to host themselves
• Data sets should be added to a GEOSS compliant catalog to be
searchable by the global atlas
• On the formal side usually a data sharing agreement between IRENA and
the provider is signed
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9. Development of the Atlas
• The core WEB-GIS application is a collaborative work of DLR, NREL and
Masdar.
• DLR is coordinating the development of the WEB-GIS platform
• Builiding upon
• DLR projects EnerGEO, Endorse, SolarMed Atlas
• NREL project around OpenCarto
• The catalog is contributed by Mines ParisTech
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10. Global Atlas – WebGIS
Data layers
Legends
ToolsAdd data
Search results
Preview
Filter search
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11. Tools
• The atlas framework has an interface to add tools for processing and
analyzing the data
• Processing tools have to follow the OGC WPS (Web processing service)
standards
• Processes can be handled asynchronously. If processes take long
processing times, they can be detached and accessed later when the
processing is done.
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12. Tools Example: CSP-GIS from the Endorse Project
• Find suitable locations
for CSP power plants
• Assess the potential for
the technology (how
much suitable area is
available
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13. Tools Example: CSP-GIS from the Endorse Project
• Welcome screen
• Choose suitable land
cover
• Distance to populated
areas
• Distance to the electrity
grid
• Slope
• ….
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14. Tools Example: CSP-GIS Sample Results
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Map of suitable areas with available
solar radiation
Available land area a distinct
radiation levels

15. Summary
• The global atlas is governed by a political process from the clean energy
ministerial process, the secretariat is headed by IRENA
• The global atlas creates an open standards geospatial infrastructure to
search, visualize and process geo data relevant to renewable energies
• It is a collaborative system in operation and development to be extended.
• Upcoming work
• Improvement of the atlas framework
• New RE data sources: Biomass, Geothermal, ..
• New Tools
• We need communities as these to gather new ideas for new analysis tools
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