JRC Petten 11 October 2016

IRENA Introduction

Dolf Gielen

Director Innovation and Technology

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IRENA has 149 Members and 27 States have started the formal process of

becoming Members

Renewable energy can:

• Meet our goals for secure, reliable and sustainable energy

• Provide electricity access to 1.3 billion people

• Promote economic development and Jobs (9.3 M jobs today)

• At an affordable cost. Solar Dubai and Chile 3 USct/kWh, Wind Egypt and

Peru 3 USct/kWh

International Renewable Energy Agency

IRENA Work Programme 2016-2017 Six thematic areas

• Planning for the global energy transition

• Enabling investment and growth

• Renewable energy access for sustainable livelihoods

• Regional action agenda

• Islands: lighthouses for sustainable energy deployment

• Gateway to knowledge on renewable energy

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Structure and Membership

Headquarters:

Abu Dhabi,

United Arab Emirates

Three Programmes:

•Innovation and Technology

Centre (IITC) in Bonn, Germany

•Knowledge, Finance and

Policy Centre in Abu Dhabi

•Country Support Programme

in Abu Dhabi

Foundation

26 January 2009 in Bonn

International Agency since April 2011

The only international RE agency

worldwide

Scope

Hub, voice and source of knowledge

for renewable energy

Mandate

Sustainable deployment of the six

forms of renewable energy

resources

(Biomass, Geothermal, Hydro,

Ocean, Solar, Wind) 4

IRENA

Innovation and Technology Centre

• Official opening of IITC on October 2011

• Location: Bonn

• 46 staff

• Knowledge, advice, creating and supporting networks

Renewable energy roadmaps (REmap)

Energy planning

Power sector transformation

Technology information – status and outlooks

Standards and quality control

R&D advice

Bankable project preparation (navigator)

Island transition planning (grid studies, transition plans)

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Renewables use in buildings, industry, and transport as well as renewables-based

district heating would account for nearly 60% of modern renewable energy use in 2030

A need to expand renewables in all sectors

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Power, 19%

Transport, 4%

Heat, and other direct uses, 77%

2014

Power, 44%

Transport, 10%

Heat, and other direct uses, 46%

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2014 REmap Doubling

Modern renewable energy use

(in EJ)

• REmap global analysis issued 17 March 2016

• 50 country roadmaps covering 85% of global

energy use, based on bottom up analysis of technology options

to accelerate RE deployment

o Developed in close cooperation with country experts

• All data, assumptions and detailed results are available online:

• www.irena.org/remap - new roadmap indicator dashboard

• Analysis can inform regarding areas for cooperation and joint

action, including investment, cost and benefits (climate,

environment, energy security, macro-economics) of possible new

G20 RE deployment objectives

Country potentials and technology

roadmaps

1. Analysis of RE costs,

cost reduction potentials and

best practice exchange

2. Best practice exchanges on

(i) enabling policy framework

(ii) integration of high shares of

variable renewables

3. Development of a renewable

energy specific risk mitigation

facility

Five Actions on a voluntary opt-in basis

4. Assessment of country

renewable energy technology

potentials and development of

roadmaps

5. Accelerate deployment of

modern bioenergy

The G20 Toolkit

September 2016

G20 decarbonization study

• 2017 Germany G20 Presidency

• Explore energy policy consequences of “well below 2 degrees Celsius” agreement

• Zero carbon energy by 2060 across all sectors, worldwide

• What are investment, technology development etc consequences

• 2050 time horizon

• Focus on EE + RE

• Based on REmap methodology

• Report scheduled for March 2017

• IRENA in cooperation with IEA and OECD

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Find answers to the following questions:

• What are the technology bottlenecks

to make innovative RE technologies

competitive?

• What are the opportunities for

innovation to address these

bottlenecks?

• What are the promising R&D activities

at present that might be commercially

available in three decades from now?

• How policy-makers can support the

development and commercialization

of these technologies?

Innovation outlooks

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Picture courtesy NREL

Picture courtesy NREL

Advanced biofuels (Oct 2016)

Off-Shore Wind (Nov 2016)

Mini-grids (Sep 2016)

Ocean energy (2015)

THANK YOU! WWW.IRENA.ORG

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IRENA PUBLICATIONS

Costing database www.irena.org/costing

REmap – Country and sector transition roadmaps www.irena.org/remap

Project development guidelines (Navigator platform) www.irena.org/navigator

Standards and Patents information (Inspire platform) www.irena.org/inspire

Islands SIDS Lighthouses http://www.irena.org/quickscan