1. The Energy Community of Practice in GEOSS Dr. Thierry Ranchin, Ecole des Mines de Paris Marion Schroedter-Homscheidt, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

2. U.S. IEOS GMES GEOSS Many Systems Contributing to GEOSS Monitoring for scientific, economic, & societal benefits Focus on policy needs –Society needs information & services—beyond data GEO is logical outlet –Countries –Institutions Draw from previous work –IGOS, CEOS, WMO, G3OS

3. The Global Earth Observation System of Systems Status Update Adopted formal GEO organization and 10-year implementation plan Held GEO I in May 2005, and GEO II in December 2005 G-8 Affirmation of Commitment Selected new GEO Secretariat Director, Jose Achache Accepted 2006 Work Plan, adopted a budget and formally created GEO Committees –Architecture and Data; Capacity Building; Science and Technology; User Interface; and Working Group on Tsunami Activities

5. Objectives –Energy CP Support GEOSS outcomes related to application of EO data for energies. Relevant areas are: –Siting –Design –Yield estimation and resource monitoring –Forecasting –Integration –Operation –Trading –Environmental monitoring Energy community: users of the energy, suppliers of systems and components, electricity transmission and distributions operators, heat distributors providers of services, value adders, market players

6. Societal Benefit Why Energy Now? World-wide interdependence of conventional energy production Energies and uses of energies have a dramatic impact on global warning, human health and sustainable economic development Technologies mature and in development Huge potential in both developed and developing countries Dramatic benefit in improved siting, operating monitoring, etc. using long-term historic data and nowcasting Improved forecasting crucial to integration into electricity grids and for utility and power plant operations

7. Justification Requires interdisciplinary knowledge and disparate information that go beyond existing collaborative activities: –Weather data archives for site modeling –Weather forecasting in all timeframes –Boundary layer meteorology –Climate analysis and long-term variability –Extreme event analysis and temporal change –Turbulence information –GIS, land use data, surface roughness data, orography, snow cover, vegetation status –Ocean parameters –Infrastructure compatibility –Environmental impacts

8. Gaps identified by Users Several projects as e.g. ESA EOMD projects ENVISOLAR, EO-WINDFARM and EO-HYDRO have shown shortcomings: –data are hard or costly to access –form difficult to interpret –quality information unknown –user involvement in product definition is missing –delays in data access –handling of large data amounts –NRT chains of data supply are not reliable enough –spatial and temporal coverage not optimized for energy needs –standardisation not sufficient –different data sources difficult to handle –lack in long-term funding of EO providers, project-based data –long-term archives not funded

9. Energy systems Life Cycle / Data Needs Courtesy Armines (Fr) Data Issues: error bar (DA, risk) even for individual values certification, bankable Data Requirements depend on the phase benchmark availability, backup systems automatic monitoring

10. Energy Community of Practices

11. Working groups Wind Solar Ocean Hydro power Geothermal Biomass Coal Oil and Gas Nuclear

12. Ocean Energy Courtesy BioPowers Systems Courtesy TidalStream

13. Ocean Energy Courtesy Hydrohelix Energies Courtesy Ocean Power Delivery

14. Courtesy ARGOSS (NL) & BMT (UK) Ocean energy Remote sensing, in-situ measurements (buoys) and models outputs for resource and impact assessments significant wave height Scatter diagram. Percentage of occurrence of significant wave height (m) in rows versus wave direction in columns - waveclimate.com. Courtesy ARGOSS (NL) & BMT (UK) artists view of a wave farm Courtesy Ocean Power Delivery Ltd

15. Ocean energy Vertical Profil Model Mapping of Ocean Thermal Energy Site Characterization For a Given Site Investment study (Archive) Monitoring / Maintenance (Real Time) Irradiation Wind Ocean Thermal Energy Courtesy NERSC (Norway)

16. Your help is needed http://www.geoss-ecp.org thierry.ranchin@ensmp.fr marion.schroedter-homscheidt@dlr.de