1. GEOSS AIP-6 Architecture 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) Kick-off Meeting March 28-29 NOAA Silver Spring MD, USA. Point Of Contact : Lionel MENARD - MINES ParisTech

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

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

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 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

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