Site-Specific Assessment of Bioenergy Potential is Now Possible with IRENA's Bioenergy Simulator
The Bioenergy Simulator is a web-based geospatial tool that allows users to understand bioenergy potential and related issues in a specific selected area.
- March 2022
IRENA Launches Global Atlas 4.0
IRENA Global Atlas 4.0 incorporates more than 1000 revised renewable energy resource maps, complemented by key information such as the availability of transmission networks, population density and protected areas.
- June 2021
Caribbean Embraces New Geothermal Resource Classification
IRENA and partners pilot for the first time at a regional level a system to encourage investment in geothermal projects.
- December 2018
IRENA to Integrate Iraq’s New Solar Map into Global Atlas
New solar resource map will help identify the best solar resources for informing and facilitating renewable energy planning across the country.
- June 2018
IRENA, IGA and World Bank Team Up to Streamline Geothermal Energy Development
New country-level resource data gathering and classification effort to streamline geothermal investments and facilitate more projects around the world.
- April 2018
IRENA Global Atlas 3.0: Resource data for renewable energy professionals
Upgrade to IRENA’s renewable energy prospecting platform fosters user collaboration for developing more renewable projects.
- June 2017
Simulating Bioenergy Potential
A new IRENA online simulator, estimates potential yields of bioenergy produced anywhere in the world, and is looking to the public to help validate its data.
- December 2016
New Solar & Wind Maps Downloadable on IRENA Global Atlas
This past May, IRENA’s Global Atlas for Renewable Energy unveiled a new feature that allows users to download renewable resource data from selected datasets for offline analysis.
- August 2016
Renewable Resource Data Now Available for Free Download
Today, IRENA launched a new version of the Global Atlas for Renewable Energy, the online renewable energy mapping platform. For the first time, the platform allows users to download resource data for offline analysis, and to print and...
- May 2016
Seeing the Wind with the New Global Wind Atlas
As many countries look toward incorporating renewables into their energy mix, they seek reliable renewable energy data. In planning wind farms, for example, developers naturally pick areas with the highest wind speeds. In datasets that provide...
- October 2015