Clean Energy Solutions Center (CESC)

Goal
The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments, advisors, and analysts create policies and programs that advance the deployment of clean energy technologies.
Overview

The Clean Energy Solutions Center (the Solutions Center) helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of transformational low-carbon technologies. The Solutions Center offers no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of more than 30 experts for government policy makers and the technical institutes assisting them, online training and webinars, and peer-to-peer learning to help countries tailor solutions to their needs and foster international collaboration on policy innovations. The Solutions Center also serves as a knowledge portal for online 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 in partnership with more than 35 leading international and regional clean energy organizations.
About CESC
PROVIDING POLICY INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE
The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps governments design and adopt policies and programs that support the deployment of clean energy technologies.
What We Offer
The Solutions Center offers no-cost expert policy assistance, webinars and training forums, clean energy policy reports, data, and tools provided in partnership with more than 35 leading international and regional clean energy organizations.
Ask an Expert Service
Our Ask an Expert service provides no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of over 50 experts for government agency representatives and the technical institutes assisting them. To date, this service has supported hundreds of requests for assistance from over 90 countries. The Ask an Expert service makes it easy to request targeted, first-rate expert assistance and receive in-depth answers and support for your policy questions.
Web-Based Training and Peer Learning
Our high-attendance webinars are designed in collaboration with global partner institutions, and engage diverse global audiences in interactive discussions on important clean energy policy topics covering energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy access and transport issues. We also offer e-learning courses, podcasts and videos.
Policy Briefs
Our clean energy policy briefs are intended to inform legislators, decision makers, analysts working for government agencies and utility executives on current good practices, lessons learned and success stories.
Resource Library
The Solutions Center features an extensive collection of 1,500 clean energy resources, including reports on best-practice policies, data and analysis tools for the benefit of policymakers.
Clean Energy Analysis
The Clean Energy Solutions Center helps inform global energy dialogue with original research and analysis. Recently, we worked with Australia’s Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics to release the Asia-Pacific Renewable Energy Assessment. The Solutions Center has also issued reports on the next generation of renewable electricity policies, the integration of renewable energy in electric power markets, and policies to spur energy access.
Unique Policy Resources
The Solutions Center provides current and relevant information on clean energy policies. These resources include emerging policy reports, enhanced policy data, and analysis tools such as the Indian Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Database (IREEED)—an online database of India’s renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, regulations, and incentive programs.
Solutions Center Governance
The Solutions Center is an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a global forum to share best practices and promote policies and programs that encourage and facilitate the transition to a global clean energy economy.
The Solutions Center is co-sponsored by the governments of the United States and Australia.
As the Solutions Center operating agency, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is responsible for content development, service delivery, website design and maintenance, analysis, and all other products and services provided by the Solutions Center. NREL also coordinates activities with the many Solutions Center partners.
Activities
ASK AN EXPERT SERVICE
Goal
CESC’s Ask an Expert service provides no-cost clean energy policy assistance through a global network of over 50 experts for government agency representatives and the technical institutes assisting them. To date, this service has supported hundreds of requests for assistance from over 90 countries. The Ask an Expert service makes it easy to request targeted, first-rate expert assistance and receive in-depth answers and support for your policy questions.
Ask an Expert Service Impacts
Since the Solutions Center launched in 2011, its experts have responded to more than 400 requests for assistance from more than 90 countries, island nations and regional organizations around the world.
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More than 50 clean energy experts are available to provide assistance and in-depth answers to your questions.
OUR EXPERTS

Finance
Renewable Energy
Christina Becker-Birck
Vice President
Cadmus
Policy Design and Tariff Rate SettingNational Fund DesignPrivate Sector Engagement StrategiesLender Capacity Building

Renewable Energy
Chad Laurent
Principal
Cadmus
Sustainable Energy Policy Design and Laws

Energy Efficiency
David I. McGeown
Principal
McGeown Associates, LLC.
BuildingsStandardsand ESCOs

Energy-Water-Food Nexus
Jennifer Daw
Professional Engineer
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Energy-Water-Food NexusSustainable DevelopmentSystems Integration

Renewable Energy
Louis Seck
Former Senegalese Minister for Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy PolicyClean Cookstoves

Energy Efficiency
Kurt Shickman
Executive Director
Global Cool Cities Alliance
Cool Surfaces

Renewable Energy
Kevin Bourque
Project Engineer
RETScreen International
Clean Power Analysis with RETScreen

Carbon Capture
Juho Lipponen
Coordinator
Clean Energy Ministerial CCUS Initiative

Finance
Renewable Energy
Joseph Essandoh-Yeddu
Head, Strategic Planning and Policy
Ghana Energy Commission
Integrated Energy Planning

Renewable Energy
Jon Crowe
Principal
Cadmus
Low-carbon CitiesUrban Climate and Energy Strategies
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Goal
The Clean Energy Solutions Center is dedicated to providing government officials, policymakers, and their advisors a centralized resource to access good practice information that supports development and implementation of clean energy policies and programs.
Overview
We cull the vast global library of clean energy policy resources to present the most relevant clean energy reports, data and tools to help you design and implement clean energy policy in your country or region. Find resources by searching our collection using keywords. Or, browse for resources by topics, including clean transport, energy access, energy efficiency, finance, grid integration, renewable energy, and the energy-water-food nexus.
Policy briefs
Publications
Disclaimer: The Solutions Center does not endorse or recommend specific products or services. The Solutions Center does not endorse the organizations sponsoring linked websites and does not endorse the views they express or the products/services they offer.
See also these policy resource collections from our partners, policy data resources and public databases for subnational clean energy policies.
TRAINING AND WEBINARS
Goal
We offer no-cost training webinars on clean energy policy and finance topics for policymakers around the world.
Additional Information
Visit the CESC’s YouTube to see past webinars:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cleanenergypolicy
Webinars
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