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 [...]

I’m just back at my desk after an intensive week at the impressive World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi. Thanks to our friends over at IRENA for hosting REEEP on their (well-positioned!) stand. We also took the opportunity to hold a workshop on how Linked Open Data can support Clean Energy development. Don’t know [...]

A happy, healthy and successful 2012 to all of you! Here we go with the first Events Listing of the year – events over the next three months in Sofia, Mexico City, Amsterdam and online, and starting next week in Abu Dhabi, where I will be going. Also, if you’re working in Southern or East [...]

Last week another COP came to an inconclusive close. Last month an era at REEEP ended with the retirement of our original Director General. Last year we had no idea of the scale of events that would take place in 2011, both natural and human-led, producing the potential for huge changes in the way we [...]

Is anybody out there? Are you all busy at COP17 and I’m shouting into a void? Or are some of you (like me) still at your desks? If you’re at COP17 and still have enough attention span to read this – thank you! – I’ll start with a few side events in case you haven’t [...]

Clean Energy development is a complex beast. As well as consideration of efficiency in energy use and generation from renewable sources, and the many different technologies, we need to take into account differing conditions – both physical and pertaining to the energy market – in different places. So it’s a good thing that I’ve got [...]