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Introduction

In an effort to better understand the needs as well as the user satisfaction of the energypedia community, we recently conducted our first Energypedia User Survey. The survey was launched on 30th June 2015, with a survey link on our website, survey request sent via emails to all our registered users as well as a survey link on our communication channels like newsletter, Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn. The survey was closed on 13th July 2015. The survey covered three main aspects

• information on energypedia users and their level of satisfaction with energypedia
• quality of the information on energypedia
• Energypedia community (does the community know about all the resources on energypedia, how do they use it)

A total of 185 users responded to the survey and the key outcomes of the survey is highlighted below. We will also incoperate all the feedbacks into our future plans for energypedia. Please feel free to send any comments on these survey finding, or additional feedback for energypedia at info@energypedia.info.

About 86.9% of the survey respondents are either very satisfied or satisfied with energypedia's overall services. 11.6% are slightly satisfied while 1.4% are not at all satisfied with energypedia.

User Demographic

Regions and Professions of our users

• Out of the total 185 users who responded to the survey, around 145 already have an energypedia

Regions where our users come from	Occupation of our users
Most of our users are based in Europe and Central Asia followed by Africa	Most of energypedia users are working for private sector or business followed by government sector

Recommendation and Uses of Energypedia

According to the survey , most of our users were recommendation by their friends/colleagues to visit energypedia. They usually visit energypedia to keep themselves to update themselves about the latest renewable energy news.

How do users know about energypedia?	What are the uses of energypeida?

Sections on energypedia

What can you do on energypeida?

Uses of Energypedia

We also asked our users about, what would motivate or is motivating them to contribute to energypedia and their answers have been summarized in the following points:

• Sharing information about renewable energy is one of the biggest motivation of our users
• They would also contribute if they had a better idea about what kind of information is in demand and if the information they will contribute will be beneficial or not
• A clear picture about the user traffic at energypedia and ease of uploading information on energypedia is also a decisive factor on contributing to energypedia
• Contributing to energypedia as well as using energypedia is also a part of their job.

Energypedia Newsletter

Out of the total 185 survey respondents, about 138 have subscribed to our monthly newsletter.

Frequency of reading the newsletter	General feedback for the newsletter

We also asked our users on how we can make our newsletter much more interesting for them and the section below summarizes the results:

• Most of our users said that they are satisfied with energypedia.
• Recent updates about new publications, as well as events in renewable energy sector
• Announcements regaring online trainings, call for proposals
• Theme based newsletter with better design and also a feedback loop for contributing to energypeida