29 Feb 2012
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
Vienna’s University of Technology TU Wien has achieved some recognition in the international field of solar architecture! In this particular case it is an innovative combination of active solar energy and passive solar energy. “Solar Decathlon 2013″ is an international competition organized by the US Department of Energy. Entries range from different types of efficient and sustainable [...]
23 Feb 2012
by Denise Recheis - Category: reegle
NREL and REEEP have been successfully cooperating using Linked Open Data (LOD) principles and technologies for several months now. Their online information platforms reegle.info and openEI.org use each other’s data and information to enrich both websites – for the benefit of their users. Martin Kaltenböck from LOD2 has interviewed Jon Weers (NREL) and Florian Bauer [...]
22 Feb 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
Mostly over in the northern half of America this week with news on events in Mexico City, New York, Sacramento and Toronto coming up, but also one in Bali and one in London. Wind in the pipeline 717.2 MW of wind projects were expected to become operational in Mexico in 2011. Updated figures always lag [...]
Ghana is launching its own Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI)! It appears Ghana will be the second African country providing an Open Government Data portal, after Kenya. Ghana has joined the pledge of participating countries as part of the Open Data Partnership to deliver country actions plans for concrete commitment towards Open Government. Last spring [...]
08 Feb 2012
by James Smith (REEEP Community Facilitator) - Category: Events, REEEP
Temperatures here in my part of France have been below freezing for several days and the snow and ice is keeping me here in the valley, but is spring in the air for clean energy? When the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Ali Al-Naimi, is making speeches praising the environmental and economic [...]
06 Feb 2012
by Denise Recheis - Category: News
IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) wants to unleash the world’s vast renewable energy resources to make a significant contribution to the world’s growing demand for energy. It’s IRENA’s mission is to promote the widespread and increased adoption and sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy. Today I want to highlight some of their activities [...]