Renewable Energy Knowledge - Global Challenges

Webinar

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) is pleased to invite you to the online broadcast of a high-profile event on global renewable energy knowledge. This event will take place on 20 January 2015 at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Renewable energy information is often seen as less accessible, detailed and accurate than information on conventional energy technologies. The lack of consistent, transparent data and analysis has created uncertainties for investors and allowed misunderstandings about renewables to persist in public opinion. The international community is striving to improve the quality and timeliness of the publicly available information on renewable energy around the world. Since the infant stages of renewable energy deployment, much of the international attention has focused on electricity production and its integration into the existing energy mix rather than on the end-use of renewables. As a result, most efforts in collecting renewable energy information only captured a small fraction of the final energy use. Looking beyond the electricity sector, future renewable energy deployment may be strongly influenced by the growth in the heat and transport sectors.

Questions will include the following:

  • What is the level of information available on the renewable energy sector today?
  • Is the lack of renewable energy information a perceived challenge, or a real one?
  • What are the next frontiers for renewable energy information?
  • What efforts are needed to accurately capture future market developments?

Presenters: - Rabia Ferroukhi, Deputy Director of Knowledge, Policy and Finance, IRENA - Paolo Frankl, Head of the Renewable Energy Division, International Energy Agency - Christine Lins, Executive Secretary, Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century - Martin Hiller, Director General, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership - Tareq Emtairah, Executive Director, Regional Center for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency