Solutions Center

The Solutions Center empowers governments to design and implement policies and programs that expand access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy.

What We Offer

The Solutions Center provides free expert assistance, webinars, training forums, energy policy reports, data, and tools in partnership with leading international and regional organizations.

Ask an Expert Service

Our Ask an Expert service connects government agency representatives and their supporting technical institutes with a global network of experts, offering complimentary policy and technical assistance. To date, the Solutions Center has supported hundreds of requests from over 90 countries.

Web-Based Training and Peer Learning

In collaboration with global partner institutions, the Solutions Center’s webinars engage global audiences in interactive discussions on critical topics ensuring access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy.

Resource Library

The Solutions Center’s extensive collection includes best-practice policy reports, data, and analysis tools to benefit policymakers. We also develop policy briefs to inform legislators, decision-makers, government agency analysts, and utility executives on current best practices, lessons learned, and success stories.

Energy Analysis

The Solutions Center contributes to the global energy dialogue through original research and analysis. We’ve issued reports on topics such as electricity resilience policies, the addition of reliable energy in electric power markets, and policies to spur energy access.

Unique Policy Resources

The Solutions Center offers current, relevant information on energy policies, including emerging policy reports, enhanced policy data, and analysis tools.

Solutions Center Governance

The Solutions Center is an initiative of the CEM, a global forum for sharing best practices and promoting policies and programs that encourage and facilitate access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy.

The Solutions Center is co-sponsored by the governments of the United States and Australia.

For the Solutions Center, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) manages content development, service delivery, website design and maintenance, analysis, and all other products and services. NREL also coordinates activities with the Solutions Center’s many partners.

Since its launch in 2011, the Solutions Center’s experts have responded to over 400 requests for assistance from more than 90 countries, island nations, and regional organizations worldwide.

Ask an Expert Service Impacts

The Solutions Center’s Ask an Expert service connects government agency representatives and/or their supporting technical institutes with a global network of experts, offering complimentary energy policy and technical assistance. To date, the Solutions Center has supported hundreds of requests from around the world, providing targeted, high-quality expert assistance and in-depth answers to your policy and technical questions.

• Africa
• Americas
• Asia
• Europe
• Oceania

Pose a question

The Solutions Center provides government officials, policymakers, and their advisors with a hub for accessing best-practices to support the development and implementation of energy policies and programs.

Overview

The Solutions Center culls the vast global library of energy policy resources to present the most relevant reports, data and tools to help you design and implement energy policy in your country or region. Find resources by searching our collection using keywords. Or, browse for resources by topics, including, energy access, finance, grid integration, and the energy-water-food nexus.

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.

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We offer complimentary training webinars on affordable, reliable and secure energy policy and finance for policymakers worldwide.

Visit the Clean Energy Solutions Center’s YouTube channel to view past webinars: https://www.youtube.com/user/cleanenergypolicy.