Semantic Sandbox

Tools for Solar Energy

Pico PV Database

It includes full spectrum of mini solar appliances such as mini reading lamps, torches, micro-solar home systems.

Toolbox on Solar Powered Irrigation System

It enables advisors and practitioners i to provide broad hands-on guidance to end-users, policy-makers and financiers

Other Tools

• Wind, solar, storage and back-up system designer
• Sustainable Energy for Pumping and Irrigation
• Solar Pumping Toolkit - The Global Solar & Water Initiative
• Solar Pumping Toolkit - Technical Design
• Solar Pumping Toolkit - Monitoring and Evaluation
• Solar Pumping Toolkit - Installation and O&M
• Solar Pumping Toolkit - Guidance and Assessment
• Solar Power and Tariff Tool EnDev Calculation Spreadsheet
• Solar Energy - Tools
• RE/EE Guidance Documents and Tools for Policy Makers, Investors, and Technical Experts (RE-ACTIVATE)
• Operation and Maintenance Plan and Glossary for PV Systems
• National Approaches to Electrification – Review of Options
• Mini-Grid Sizing
• Market Development Scorecard
• Global Wind Atlas (GWA)
• Global Solar Atlas (GSA)
• EnDev Indonesia Site Criteria Checklist for Solar / Micro Hydro Power Plants
• Dynamic Cash Flow Analysis of Photovoltaic Projects in Tunisia

Tools for Cooking

Cooking Energy Compendium

A practical guidebook for implementers of cooking energy innovation.

Version française.

Other Tools

• Sustainability Tool Box
• Result Based Monitoring of Cookstove Projects
• Preparation Guide for a Sustainable Energy Project in Refugee Settings
• Market Development Scorecard
• Bioenergy Decision Support Tool
• Alternative Charcoal Tool (ACT)

Tools for Bioenergy

Alternative Charcoal Tool (ACT)

It gives small and medium enterprises, policy makers as well as NGOs in developing countries insight in the potential of charcoal production from alternative feedstocks on a regional or country level.

Other Tools

Tools for Hydropower

Micro/Mini Hydropower Library (MHL)

It includes knowledge product related to micro-hydro topics on energypedia

Other Tools

• Toolkit for Participatory Market Systems Development (PMSD)
• Micro/Mini Hydropower Library (MHL)
• Micro Hydro Power (MHP) Manuals
• MHP-Financial Feasibility Analysis Tool
• Global Wind Atlas (GWA)
• Global Solar Atlas (GSA)
• EnDev Indonesia Site Criteria Checklist for Solar / Micro Hydro Power Plants

Tools for Mini-grids

Web-based Mini-grid

It allows interested parties to enter data from site surveys into the database and perform calculations on the energy demand

Other Tools

• Solar Power and Tariff Tool EnDev Calculation Spreadsheet
• Retail Tariff Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids
• Power Purchase Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids
• Mini-grid Builder
• Mini-Grid Sizing
• Milling as a Productive Application in Green Mini-Grid (GMG) Systems
• Ice-Making as a Productive Application in Green Mini-Grid (GMG) Systems
• Global Wind Atlas (GWA)
• Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids
• EnDev Indonesia Site Criteria Checklist for Solar / Micro Hydro Power Plants
• Catalogue of Mini-Grid Tools

RE/EE Project Tools

RE & EE Project Resource Center

It offers project-relevant renewable energy and energy efficiency documents to the global energy community.

Fuel Price Database

It includes data on fuel prices, taxes, price policies, etc. of almost all countries in the world.

Company Directory

It includes companies working in the off-grid sector.

Other Tools

• The Micro-energy Final Assessment Tool (MEFAT)
• SE4Jobs Toolbox
• Retail Tariff Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids
• Renewable Energy Project Resource Center
• RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software
• Power Purchase Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids
• Open Energy System Models
• Online Monitoring Tools
• Global Wind Atlas (GWA)
• Global Solar Atlas (GSA)
• Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) Tool - SADC RERA Mini-Grids