Date:
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) held a workshop on their joint collaboration for methodologies, data exchanges and power system analysis. The director of IRENA's Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn, Mr. Dolf Gielen and his REMap team have visited Petten for an exploratory meeting on collaborative opportunities with the JRC. The key aim of the workshop was IRENA's deeper learning about JRC's activities and identifying synergies among JRC's respective work, in order to enhance IRENA's "REmap EU" analysis.
IRENA has published last January the REMap 2016 report, an analysis of global renewable technology deployment potentials towards year 2030 across energy transformation and end-use sectors. The assessment was based on a collection of harmonized 40 country studies. Lately IRENA started the "REMap EU” study by revisiting REMap country's results from EU members, focusing on the operational aspects of doubling the share of RE in an integrated European power systems. Therefore, the workshop's main objectives were the following:
- Fathom the REmap EU project and understand its methodology,
- Identify IRENA datasets relevant to ongoing SET-Plan implementation activities,
- JRC modelling activities and analyses and ascertain means for tapping into them. Examples include global cost and other renewable related technologies data,
- Identify JRC knowledge relevant to IRENA's REmap EU work and streamline collaborative exchange (e.g. expansion of the objectives on the Exchange of Letter between JRC and IRENA from 09/13/2013).
The recently kicked off "REMap EU" project, which entails member states specific deep dive analysis , was presented in Brussels on 20 October, hosted by DG ENER C1, with the objective of reviewing the draft Remap EU analysis.
Savvas Politis
Location:
Petten, The Netherlands
