Enhanced RE Data Explorer Offers High-Fidelity Solar Resource Data Set for SE Asia (Text Version)
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USAID and NREL have released an enhanced and expanded version of the Renewable Energy Data Explorer (RE Data Explorer), a publicly available geospatial analysis tool that can inform renewable energy policy, investment, and deployment decisions. With funding from USAID under the Advanced Energy Partnership for Asia, this release includes a re-designed user interface, the addition of high spatial and temporal resolution solar resource data for Southeast Asia, and wind, solar, and complementary data for the entire globe.
Video opens with cars driving on a bridge over water with a city in the background.
Narrator: Southeast Asia is one of the fastest-growing economic regions in the world.
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Narrator: Countries across the region are undergoing …
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Narrator: … a clean energy transformation …
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Narrator: … to provide citizens …
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Narrator: … with the affordable, secure …
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Narrator: … and reliable energy needed …
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Narrator: … to meet increasing energy demand …
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Narrator: … and power economic …
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Narrator: … and other development objectives.
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Narrator: But lack of access to high-quality, publicly available renewable energy resource data and tools …
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Narrator: … is a common and fundamental challenge …
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Narrator: … to reaching these ambitious energy sector transformation goals …
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Narrator: … across the region.
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Narrator: The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, …
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Narrator: … and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (or NREL) …
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Narrator: … through the Advanced Energy Partnership for Asia, have developed and released a publicly available, high-fidelity solar resource dataset for Southeast Asia that will help to level the playing field for clean energy investments and decision making.
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Steve: This rapid economic growth, combined with growing population …
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Steve: … and rising urbanization are all driving …
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Steve: … increased energy demand.
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Steve: Access to affordable, secure, and reliable energy is crucial to support …
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Steve: … regional economic development …
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Steve: … and is a consideration of countries to achieve these objectives.
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Steve: We are incredibly pleased to make these essential data available to all stakeholders in the region.
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Narrator: This dataset can be used to inform prospecting and drive energy sector investment and other high-impact decisions to accelerate renewable energy deployment throughout Southeast Asia. NREL harnessed one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world …
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Narrator: … to process data from the Himawari satellite to produce this first-of-its-kind solar resource dataset.
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Narrator: NREL researchers then conducted an extensive validation process to develop a best in class 10-minute temporal resolution and 2-kilometer spatial resolution dataset …
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Narrator: … that is available for download and use in energy system modeling activities by users.
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Narrator: This high-resolution solar dataset can feed into many different types of analyses including mapping and visualization, system generation analysis, technical potential analysis, and capacity expansion and production cost modeling.
Text overlay includes the following words in a column on the right: decision, renewable energy target-setting, investment and finance decisions, early-stage prospecting, long-term energy planning, grid integration and system operation.
Narrator: All of these analyses can then inform various decisions including renewable energy target-setting, investment and finance decisions, early-stage prospecting, long-term energy planning, as well as grid integration and system operation.
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Narrator: Now, stakeholders around the world have access to …
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Narrator: … this high-fidelity dataset …
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Narrator: … via the newly expanded and upgraded RE Data Explorer platform …
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Narrator: … which provides access to solar and wind data and other critical data layers such as land use and environmental data, for not only the Southeast Asia region, but for the entire globe.
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Caption: Dr. Nuki Agya Utama Executive Director ASEAN Centre for Energy.
Dr. Nuki Agya Utama: The influence or participation of the private sector is very important. We know that governments cannot do it alone …
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Dr. Nuki Agya Utama: … on providing such important …
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Dr. Nuki Agya Utama: … energy in the area. The kind of data is very important …
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Dr. Nuki Agya Utama: … to make sure that the …
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Dr. Nuki Agya Utama: … capacity can be translated into real potential.
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Caption: Sadie Cox Senior Analyst, Strategic Energy Analysis Center National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Sadie: We’re really democratizing data for this region and for the world. We hear stories from users all the time of how they’re using this data to inform various types of decisions and having a very critical impact on the ground in terms of expanding renewable energy development.
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Narrator: Visit the RE Data Explorer to discover how the newly developed …
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Narrator: … best-in-class solar data for Southeast Asia …
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Narrator: … can inform your renewable energy policy, planning …
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Narrator: … and investment decisions …
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Narrator: … and advance clean energy transitions in the region.
Closing shot of RE Data Explorer logo, URL re-explorer.org/re-data-explorer, USAID and NREL logos, and words Advanced Energy Partnership for Asia.
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