Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, the Abu Dhabi-headquartered International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and other collaboration partners announced the official commissioning of the UAE Solar Atlas.
The data on solar energy will be freely available online from early 2013 and can be accessed by government organizations or private enterprises for assessing the technical feasibility of any proposed renewable energy project. The findings will also be placed into Irena’s global geo-reference renewable energy potentials database.
The atlas project hopes to establish a team to collect and combine existing databases on wind and solar energy potentials in the country and train university students and researchers in solar/wind resource mapping. The announcement was made on the sidelines of the Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012 that is being held from June 20-22 in Rio de Janeiro.
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