Response Leader : MINES ParisTech Response Participants : IRENA - DLR - MASDAR - NREL - ECREEE

1. 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) Point Of Contact : Lionel MENARD - MINES ParisTech Kick-off Meeting March 28-29 NOAA Silver Spring MD, USA.

2. 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.

3. 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

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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