Overview
The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of transformational low-carbon technologies. The Solutions Center serves as a first-stop clearinghouse of clean energy resources, including policy best practices, data, and analysis tools, and shares these resources with a global forum of energy experts, policy makers, and other stakeholders. The Solutions Center offers online training, "live" expert assistance, and peer-to-peer learning to help countries tailor solutions to their needs and foster international collaboration on policy innovations.
For more information, visit the Clean Energy Solutions Center website (cleanenergysolutions.org), or view the Clean Energy Solution Center fact sheet.
Goal
The Clean Energy Solutions Center seeks to become a trusted first stop for clean energy policy makers. The Solutions Center is designed to act as a clearinghouse of high-quality clean energy policy and deployment information and to provide expert assistance and peer forums and training through a virtual platform, bringing together a broad network of policy makers remotely to work on clean energy solutions. The Solutions Center is also designed to be flexible, developing, and evolving according to the needs of its users. Regular feedback is encouraged to achieve these goals.
Progress
- The Clean Energy Solutions Center’s website, cleanenergysolutions.org, was launched at the second Clean Energy Ministerial in April 2011. The website presents policy data and resources on more than 20 clean energy topics and offers virtual expert assistance, online peer forums, and remote training for priority topics.
- In addition to securing multiyear financial commitments from the United States and Australia, the Clean Energy Solutions Center received financial support through a unique partnership with the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) and the United Nations interagency energy mechanism (UN-Energy).
- At the time of its launch, the Solutions Center website had compiled about 1,000 prominent clean energy policy and deployment data and technical resources from existing resources, CEM initiatives, and International Energy Agency data collection activities. The Solutions Center is partnering with a range of international organizations and initiatives to complement, facilitate access to, and build its set of resources, which currently spans 20+ technology areas.
- The Solutions Center has provided in-depth online training and hosted webinars featuring expert presentations on a variety of energy efficiency and renewable energy topics.
- The Solutions Center has effectively engaged in dialogue with high-level policy makers on clean energy policy and public investment opportunities through its peer-to-peer forums and ask-an-expert feature.