The Global Atlas for Renewable Energy

The case for wind power on islands

Henning Wuester,Director – Knowledge, Policy and Finance Centre

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“The entry ticket to deploy renewable energy technologies is out of reach for most developing countries.

Governments cannot afford multi-million measurement campaigns, and the international community is not in the position to cater for all requests.

Publicly accessible information, embedded expertise, free software and tools can help countries seek for solutions, and find answers.

The Global Atlas is a large concentration of scattered public knowledge to provide an essential service: a means to accelerate the global energy transition”

Vision statement

Solar, wind, bioenergy and geothermal

datasets Uniform coverage with a detail level of 3 km

for solar and 5 km for wind 1 interface to access and use 1,100 datasets

on 11 Geo-servers for free 2-days training module for 35 policy makers

in 25 countries 6 online analysis tools

67 countries, of which 47 contributed to the

project 90, 000 unique users since Jan. 2013 1,000 registered users created 1,400 maps

stored in the system 150 daily visitors with peaks of 1,000+

visitors International press coverage with regular

news releases

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Current status

Products

Spatial planning module

Large network of resource mapping experts

Vast dissemination channels

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Renewable energy prospectors

Geographic Information platform

Mobile App

Education & targeted assistance

Value proposition for wind

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Raise profile of wind energy

Highlight opportunitiesPropose a platform to

initiate dialog Handover to private sector

How?Compile the most accurate

wind modelling information for each island

Compile infrastructures (roads, grids) and protected areas

Population density (km)TopographyExisting measurement

points (beta)

Example on Sri Lanka. Wind map at 80m, grids, protected areas. Average time to develop and save such map: 30 mns.

Why was not it done before?

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Some of the opportunities for islands

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Global Atlas - Go Live!

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1.Approach IRENA

2.State your contribution – sign a Data Sharing Agreement

3.Share your data through Geoserver or IRENA can host them for you

4.Check your data and your brand are properly referenced and authorize the publication

www.irena.org/GlobalAtlas

Potentials@irena.org

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