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Clean Energy Info Portal - reegle

The information gateway reegle is designed to be an independent information dissemination tool & search engine for up-to-date information on renewable energy, energy efficiency and climate change. It provides information and data on all the various sub-sectors within these sectors at a global level, and makes information accessible in a user-friendly and intuitive format.

reegle - the search engine for renewable energy and energy efficiency

http://www.reegle.info

High-quality information

Reegle operates as a distribution hub for high quality data maintained and provided by leading international sources (currently more than 1000 sources and 9 knowledge partners). This wide range of information in combination with robust quality-management turns reegle in a unique one-stop-shop for clean energy. 

Key features of reegle are:

• Country energy profiles:
  For each country a comprehensive set of energy-related information is available on reegle. All data is fetched from high quality sources and datasets include Key Stakeholders, Policy and Regulatory Overviews, Project Outcome Documents as well as statistical data from UN, World Bank, Eurostat and other databases (displayed as graphs). A detailed description of the country and its demographic data rounds up the reegle country energy profiles.
  Example: http://www.reegle.info/countries/ZA  (Country Profile of South Africa)
   
• Database of key stakeholders:
  The reegle “actor’s catalogue” is a directory of organisations involved in clean energy. It contains information on (and links to) more than 1700 initiatives, partnerships and organisations involved in relevant fields. The Catalogue also includes information about the focus, geographical reach and projects of each organisation. Filter mechanisms allow tailoring search results by the type of organisation, countries and sectors (renewable energy, energy efficiency …).  All datasets are available free for re-use in RDF format.
  Link: http://www.reegle.info/actors
   
• Energy and Climate Change Glossary:
  The reegle energy and climate change glossary is one of the most comprehensive glossaries (more than 1400 terms) describing  the field of renewables, efficiency and climate change. Most terms are explained in reegle’s wording, enriched by definitions from wikipedia. A visual browser shows how a term is connected through related terms which help understanding the scope of a concept or technology even when there isn’t a definition available. The whole glossary/thesaurus is available free for re-use in RDF format.
  Example: http://www.reegle.info/glossary/195/waste-heat-recovery.htm (Visualisation of related terms to “Waste-Heat Recovery”)
  
   
  
   
• Clean Energy Web Search:
  The reegle clean energy web search provides a unique tool to find high quality information on clean energy. An experienced team of internal experts identify and review all sources covered by the reegle search to ensure optimum quality control. Currently reegle derives information from over 1000 websites in English, Spanish and French providing more than hundred thousands of up to date documents to reegle users. To further increase the quality of results, auto-complete services are offered during typing in search terms and once first results are displayed suggestions for refinements are offered on basis of a constantly developed thesaurus.
  Link: http://www.reegle.info/clean-energy-search
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• Geobrowsing features:
  Most parts of reegle are enhanced with an interactive map where News, Key events, Policy and Regulatory Overviews, Actors, Energy Statistics & Potentials and Projects are presented in a country-specific and visual way.
  In addition reegle offers the world’s first clean energy statistics animation tool to visualise on a European country level the development of renewables and energy efficiency, providing an opportunity to review trends over the last decade and compare how countries have committed to clean energy in real terms.
  Link: http://www.reegle.info/map
   
• Clean Energy Blog
  Current and informative, the reegle clean energy blog provides on site reports from the worlds leading events, as well as commentary on key clean energy issues and informed debate on related subject matter. With currently 21 authors and more than 240 articles the reegle blog developed into a main high quality information source for more than 20,000 regular readers per month.
  Link:  http://blog.reegle.info

Free for re-use (open) datasets

The reegle data portal for developers provides key datasets from reegle, free for re-use in 3rd party applications, widgets and websites. All datasets are provided in a standardised (Linked Open Data W3C Standards) and machine readable format (RDF). These datasets include extensive energy facts, a set of more than 1700 key stakeholders and a comprehensive thesaurus/glossary describing the clean energy sector. A comprehensive developer guide as well as a SPARQL endpoint as the central API to the reegle.info data are the single point of access for all developers, who want to integrate high quality, energy related information into their tools.
Link: http://data.reegle.info
 

A public resource

reegle is a public online resource provided by REEEP and REN21, funded by the British Department of the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) as well as the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (MINVROM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW). CDKN funded the development of the Climate Compatible Development Thesaurus