What we do
The Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) is an active, global public-private partnership that structures policy and regulatory initiatives for clean energy, and facilitates financing for energy projects.
What we do
Backed by national governments, businesses, banks and NGOs, REEEP is uniquely placed to contribute to international, national and regional policy dialogues. Accelerating the integration of renewables into the energy mix and advocating energy efficiency improves a nation’s energy security while reducing carbon emissions and ensuring socio-economic benefits.
Network
With a network of regional secretariats in all continents and several thousand associated REEEP Friends , REEEP has the ability to affect change worldwide, and promotes policy and financing structures that reduce risk and encourage increased uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. We promotes investment opportunities, supports business and institutional models, bundles small projects to a bankable size, links to carbon finance and replicates successful financing mechanisms, and work to ensure that policies and regulatory structures encourage the integration of clean energy, promote the efficient use of power and attract investment into the sector.
Funding
REEEP conducts regular programme funding cycles. REEEP focuses on projects which can be replicated and scaled-up, and have a real impact on the development of the market for renewable and efficient energy and innovation. The partnership has more than a hundred high quality projects in its portfolio, which help to remove market barriers to clean energy in more than forty countries, primarily in the developing world. These projects are beginning to deliver new business models, policy recommendations, risk mitigation instruments and regulatory measures.
Policy and Regulation
REEEP has developed several policy networks, most notably the Renewable Energy and International Law (REIL) project in collaboration with Yale University (USA), and the Sustainable Energy Regulation Network (SERN) in collaboration with Warwick University (UK), and the Energy Efficiency Coalition.
Tools
REEEP, together with REN21, has developed an information gateway called reegle. reegle gives users the ability to accesses the most relevant global data sources on renewables and energy efficiency – Try it at www.reegle.info. REEEP also supports the clean energy project analysis tool www.retscreen.net, which seeks to build the capacity of planners, decision-makers and industry to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
International Collaboration
REEEP is supporting and developing efforts to promote energy efficiency, particularly in countries with rapidly growing energy needs. Energy efficiency in buildings is a mandate to REEEP, from the G8, as buildings consume more than 1/3 of energy produced. REEEP, together with regional agencies, and international organizations such as the UN and the World Bank is working to heighten the importance of energy efficiency and renewables as a driver of increased business competitiveness.
REEEP is active in the international process. It has been recognised as a delivery mechanism by the G8, at the Gleneagles, St.Petersburg and Heiligendamm summits. The APEC Energy Working Group has been keen to harness REEEP’s expertise, and in September 2007, gave REEEP guest status to its process.
REEEP does not want to duplicate effort and recognizes that many sustainable energy partnerships already exist, so it has international collaboration agreements with GVEP, GNESD, CLASP, ICLEI, EEP and MEDREP.
REEEP is supported by funding from the governments of Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as the European Union.