GEOSS AIP-6 Architecture Implementation Pilot Phase 6 —

GEOSS AIP-6 Architecture Implementation Pilot, Phase 6 - Energy Scenario: Global Renewable Energy Atlas Response Leader: MINES Paris. Tech Response Participants: IRENA - DLR - MASDAR - NREL - ECREEE International Initiative Support: Global Renewable Energy Atlas (Lead by IRENA) Point Of Contact : Lionel MENARD - MINES Paris. Tech Kick-off Meeting March 28 -29 NOAA Silver Spring MD, USA.

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

Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) #2 Web. GIS Client (http: //irena. masdar. ac. ae/) • Develop Tools for evaluating Solar and Wind potentials (WPS)

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, 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 Atlas Targeted 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 Web. GIS Client, Catalog and potential assessment tool – Clients ready for testing – Scenario ready to run – Demo capture