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Hosting an Open Data workshop

As a regular follower of this blog and reegle in general, you will have noticed our shift to linked open data over recent months. What does it mean for you? All our data sets are here for your taking and integration into your websites via the developer’s portal for free. And for us this means [...]

Tonga-still on the road

The next South-Pacific Island I would like to bring some attention to is the Kingdom of Tonga. Again I much of this article is based on an article from Daphne Barbotte for the REEEP series for an energy encyclopedia. The constitutional monarchy in the South Pacific is populated by 120,898 people (July 2010), with 75% [...]

Access to energy from renewables in small islands

The Pacific Region covers 15 countries with 9 Million people scattered around an area with 1/3 of the planet, and this area is very difficult for providing energy services because: Geographic conditions vary widely The Pacific market is very thin Limited capacity exists to devise and implement sustainable energy policies Extreme weather events are not [...]

Tonga – on the road

Tonga is a small island state in the  South Pacific Ocean. Its main exports include Cocnuts, Vanilla Beans, bananas and coffe beans, sold mainly to New Zealand and the U.S. In the past the country has tried to satisfy its energy needs by drilling for natural oil in regions that experts didn’t regard as suitable. [...]

IRENA headquaters and other news

Just an very short (edit on 3.7.) update from the second session of the Preparatory Commission of IRENA in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt): The Signatories designated Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, as the headquarters. The other candidates for the headquaters Bonn and Vienna withdrew their candidacies shortly before Abu Dhabi was [...]

 

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