Clean Energy Information Portal www.reegle.info data.reegle.info What is reegle? reegle – the clean energy info portal is an unrivaled tool to find information on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate compatible development related topics. reegle users get free access to the following features: 1. Clean energy websearch of the most authoritative sources 2. Country energy profiles including key statistics, policies and actors 3. Catalogue of relevant key actors and stakeholders 4. Energy and climate change glossary 5. Map search of energy statistics and potentials Datasets labeled with the “we are open icon” are provided free for re-use for other websites or applications in machine readable format on data.reegle.info 2 1. Clean Energy Search reegle’s clean energy search is a unique tool to find high quality information on clean energy related topics, searching over 2000 authoritative sources. 3 2. Country Energy Profiles reegle’s country energy profiles provide a comprehensive set of energy-related information on over 200 countries including: o Contact details of key stakeholders o Overview on policy and regulations o Links to project outcome documents programmes and tools o Statistical data visualised charts 4 3. Catalogue of actors and stakeholders reegle’s catalogue of actors and stakeholders ( ) contains information on and links to over 1700 ministries, initiatives, partnerships and organisations involved in renewable energy and energy efficiency 5 4. Energy and Climate Change Glossary reegle’s extensive glossary ( )on energy, green growth, deforestation and climate change describes more than 2000 terms and offers: o Definition and synonyms for each term o Links to related, broader and narrower terms o Visual browser showing how a term is connected to others to help understanding the scope of a concept or technology o Information from other sources like Wikipedia 6 5. Country statistic comparison reegle offers stunning visualisation of energy statistics in different countries and a tool to create your own charts to compare different statistics. 7 data.reegle.info On reegle’s “linked open data portal” clean energy datasets including actors, project outcome documents, country policy reports and descriptions on more than 1600 energy terms are available free for re-use in 3rd party applications. This free of charge service includes: o Datasets in RDF to guarantee machine readable formats o SPARQL Endpoint to fetch information directly o Widgets and wordpress plugins for easy integration o Detailed guides for developers 8 api.reegle.info The reegle tagging API (http://api.reegle.info) is a cost-free tagging tool for those publishing online resources in the clean energy and climate area. It offers automated tag extraction of clean energy and climate relevant resources and a suggestion service to suggest related documents from other information brokers. 3 levels of service are available: 9 Stakeholders and Partners The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is a Public-Private Partnership launched at the Johannesburg World Summit in 2002. The REEEP aims to accelerate the global marketplace for energy ef.ciency and renewable energy by actively facilitating financing mechanisms for sustainable energy projects and structuring policy initiatives for clean energy markets on the ground. www.reeep.org The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) Is a global policy network aimed at providing a forum for international leadership on renewable energy. Its goal is to allow the rapid expansion of renewable energies in developing and industrial countries by bolstering policy development and decision-making on sub-national, national and international levels. www.ren21.net reegle is a joint project of REEEP and REN21. It is supported by: Partners • the British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) • the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany (BMU) • the „Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit“ (GIZ) • the Climate and Development Knowledge Networt (CDKN) • the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (MINVROM) • the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (Lebensministerium) 10 Global reegle Experiences “Project finance is entirely dependent on a detailed understanding of the market conditions within the relevant country. reegle provides a comprehensive overview of these parameters including law and regulations, up-to-date political standpoints, statistical data and best practice guidelines within the area, helping to guide and inform the decision- making process.” “The reegle Actors Catalogue is an invaluable source Debashish Majumdar for facilitating networking and collaboration within Chairman & Managing Director of Indian the clean-energy field and for helping to promote Renewable Development Agency Limited project development through bringing together interested parties from government agencies to manufacturers.” “Fundamental to the acceleration of the clean-energy Whang Zhongying marketplace, is the need to provide interested stakeholders, in Director Center of Renewable particular potential investors, with fast access to high quality Energy Development, China information. Reegle, the information gateway for renewable energy and energy efficiency, provides the means to link and disseminate knowledge, helping to determine market potential and facilitating global investment forecast.” Dr. Martin Schöpe Head of Division KI I 4 - Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Protection and Nuclear Safety, Germany 11 Information gateway for renewable energy and energy efficiency ”Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it”. Samuel Johnson 1775 Contact: REEEP International Secretariat Florian Bauer (Operations & IT Director) www.reegle.info [email protected] +43 1 26026 3714 .