Energypedia:About
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energypedia.info is an open interaction platform for knowledge exchange related to energy and aims to improve the knowledge exchange regarding renewable energy and energy efficiency. energypedia.info is open to the public, however users have to register to create and edit articles.
energypedia.info is not an official GIZ Web page and does not represent any official GIZ policy or stands for developments representative for GIZ.
Responsible for energypedia.info is the Dutch-German Partnership Programme Energising Development.
Responsible for the content are the energypedia user.
Contact person: (Energypedia Coordinator and Administrator)
Robert Heine
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
65760 Eschborn, Germany
robert.heine(at)giz.de
Postal Address
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 40
53113 Bonn, Germany
Fon +49 228 4460-0
Fax +49 228 4460-1766
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
65760 Eschborn, Germany
Fon +49 6196 79-0
Fax +49 6196 79-1115
Email: info@giz.de
Registered offices
Bonn and Eschborn, Germany
Registered at
Local court (Amtsgericht) Bonn, Germany: HRB 18384
Local court (Amtsgericht) Frankfurt am Main, Germany: HRB 12394
VAT no
DE 113891176
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz, State Secretary
Chairman of the Management Board
Dr Bernd Eisenblätter
Management Board
Dr Christoph Beier
Adolf Kloke-Lesch
Tom Pätz
Dr Sebastian Paust
Dr Hans-Joachim Preuß
Dr Jürgen Wilhelm
Development and technical implementation idea-sketch.com
History of energypedia
It all started at the end of 2007, when the Dutch-German Energy Partnership "Energising Development" (EnDev) first tested some wikis for internal use like organizing our weekly meeting more efficiently. In 2008 we developed a concept for using a wiki for knowledge and project management for the 22 country projects of EnDev worldwide. After some beta-testing we launched the internal EnDev-Wiki in January 2009. The number of users increased rapidly and even non-EnDev colleagues heard of it and requested accounts. As a result we decided to open the wiki for non-EnDev users by the end of 2009. This development prompted us to think about launching a general wiki for renewable energy and development cooperation. The idea of energypedia was born. After six months of development energypedia was launched on the 8th June of 2010.
