Clean Energy Solutions Center (CESC)

Goal

The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments, advisors, and analysts create policies and programs that advance the deployment of clean energy technologies.

Overview

The Clean Energy Solutions Center (the Solutions Center) helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of transformational low-carbon technologies. The Solutions Center offers no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of more than 30 experts for government policy makers and the technical institutes assisting them, online training and webinars, and peer-to-peer learning to help countries tailor solutions to their needs and foster international collaboration on policy innovations. The Solutions Center also serves as a knowledge portal for online clean energy resources—including policy best practices, data, and analysis tools—and shares these resources with a global forum of energy experts, policy makers, and other stakeholders in partnership with more than 35 leading international and regional clean energy organizations.

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About CESC

PROVIDING POLICY INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE

The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of clean energy technologies.

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What We Offer

The Solutions Center offers no-cost expert policy assistance, webinars and training forums, clean energy policy reports, data, and tools provided in partnership with more than 35 leading international and regional clean energy organizations.

Ask an Expert Service

Our Ask an Expert service provides no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of over 50 experts for government agency representatives and the technical institutes assisting them. To date, this service has supported hundreds of requests for assistance from over 90 countries. The Ask an Expert service makes it easy to request targeted, first-rate expert assistance and receive in-depth answers and support for your policy questions.

Web-Based Training and Peer Learning

Our high-attendance webinars are designed in collaboration with global partner institutions, and engage diverse global audiences in interactive discussions on important clean energy policy topics covering energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy access and transport issues. We also offer e-learning courses, podcasts and videos.

Policy Briefs

Our clean energy policy briefs are intended to inform legislators, decision makers, analysts working for government agencies and utility executives on current good practices, lessons learned and success stories.

Resource Library

The Solutions Center features an extensive collection of 1,500 clean energy resources, including reports on best-practice policies, data and analysis tools for the benefit of policymakers.

Clean Energy Analysis

The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps inform global energy dialogue with original research and analysis. Recently, we worked with Australia’s Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics to release the Asia-Pacific Renewable Energy Assessment. The Solutions Center has also issued reports on the next generation of renewable electricity policies, the integration of renewable energy in electric power markets, and policies to spur energy access.

Unique Policy Resources

The Solutions Center provides current and relevant information on clean energy policies. These resources include emerging policy reports, enhanced policy data, and analysis tools such as the Indian Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Database (IREEED)—an online database of India’s renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, regulations, and incentive programs.

Solutions Center Governance

The Solutions Center is an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a global forum to share best practices and promote policies and programs that encourage and facilitate the transition to a global clean energy economy.

The Solutions Center is co-sponsored by the governments of the United States and Australia.

As the Solutions Center operating agency, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is responsible for content development, service delivery, website design and maintenance, analysis, and all other products and services provided by the Solutions Center. NREL also coordinates activities with the many Solutions Center partners.

ASK AN EXPERT SERVICE

Goal

CESC’s Ask an Expert service provides no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of over 50 experts for government agency representatives and the technical institutes assisting them. To date, this service has supported hundreds of requests for assistance from over 90 countries. The Ask an Expert service makes it easy to request targeted, first-rate expert assistance and receive in-depth answers and support for your policy questions.

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We will contact you within two business days of when you submit your request. If your request qualifies for assistance, you will be matched with the Solutions Center expert most qualified to help you, and you will begin receiving policy assistance via phone or email consultations. For information about how we treat your privacy, refer to our website policies.

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More than 50 clean energy experts are available to provide assistance and in-depth answers to your questions.

OUR EXPERTS

Energy Efficiency

Al-Karim Govindji

Senior Manager, Innovations

Carbon Trust

Industrial Processes

Energy Access

Renewable Energy

Alexander Ochs

CEO

SD Strategies

NDC Design and ImplementationEnergy-sector Strategies and RoadmapsClimate and Energy Policies and MeasuresEnergy TransitionsRural Electrification

Energy Efficiency

Ana Maria Carreño

Manager, Policy & Analysis

CLASP

Minimum Energy Performance Standards

Finance

Renewable Energy

Barbara Buchner

Executive Director, Climate Finance

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

Climate FinanceEmission Trading

Energy Efficiency

Benjamin Curnier

Associate Director, Southern Africa

Carbon Trust

Energy Efficiency Programmes

Energy Efficiency

Bruno Lapillonne

Vice-President and Co-founder

Enerdata

Demand and Policy Evaluation

Finance

Renewable Energy

Camila Ramos

Managing Director and Founder

CELA – Clean Energy Latin America

Renewable Energy PolicyMarkets and Finance MechanismsTenders and Reverse AuctionsPrivate Equity and Corporate Investors

Energy Efficiency

Farah Sheriff

Project Engineer

RETScreen International

RETScreen: Energy Efficiency Analysis

Energy Access

Graham M. Pugh

Climate Mitigation Policies

Energy Efficiency

Geoff Smyth

Associate Director, Business Services – Implementation

Carbon Trust

Buildings

RESOURCE LIBRARY

Goal

The Clean Energy Solutions Center is dedicated to providing government officials, policymakers, and their advisors a centralized resource to access good practice information that supports development and implementation of clean energy policies and programs.

Overview

We cull the vast global library of clean energy policy resources to present the most relevant clean energy reports, data and tools to help you design and implement clean energy policy in your country or region. Find resources by searching our collection using keywords. Or, browse for resources by topics, including clean transport, energy access, energy efficiency, finance, grid integration, renewable energy, and the energy-water-food nexus.

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Disclaimer: The Solutions Center does not endorse or recommend specific products or services. The Solutions Center does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites and does not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.