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INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS
94 Renewable Energy Sources in Figures
The IEA Implementing Agreement – RETD –
At the initiative of the Federal Environment Ministry, the IEA Implementing Agreement
“Renewable Energy Technology Deployment (RETD)” was signed in 2005. RETD currently
numbers nine Member States and is the only cross-technology agreement among the IEA’s
implementing agreements on renewable energy. In this function RETD supports the largescale
market introduction of all technologies for the use of renewable energy sources, and
is devoted to cross-sectional issues such as system integration of renewable energies.
Furthermore, RETD comments on the IEA’s scenario work on renewable energy, and every
year in March it runs an international workshop jointly with the IEA Renewable Energy
Working Party (REWP).
For further information, see http://iea-retd.org/.
International Renewable Energy Agency – IRENA –
The renewables2004 conference also gave extra impetus to the establishment of a special
intergovernmental institution that promotes the expansion of renewable energies worldwide.
Spurred on by Germany and its partners, especially Denmark and Spain, this idea was put
into practice at the founding conference of the International Renewable Energy Agency
(IRENA) in Bonn on 26 January 2009.
Since the organisation’s foundation, the Statute has been signed by 149 states and the European
Union, and as of 6 July 2011 it had been ratified by 80 states. This is an overwhelming
success and demonstrates the great support enjoyed by IRENA and with it the call for global
expansion of renewable energy in general.
Equipped with a budget totalling more than 25 million US dollars for 2011 and a staff of
75 employees this year, IRENA will analyse the worldwide potential of renewable energy, design
scenarios for expanding it, and support its technological development. IRENA will offer
its Member States policy advice on creating the right framework conditions, on targeted expansion
of competencies, and on improving funding and optimising technology and knowledge
transfer for renewable energy sources. IRENA is to become a globally recognised knowledge
centre for renewable energy sources, and provide quick and easy access to relevant information
for political decision makers, users, investors and the interested public. To this end
IRENA will cooperate closely with existing international organisations, such as individual
UN organisations or the International Energy Agency (IEA), and with networks like REN21.
The Agency’s head office is in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The
Director General of IRENA is a Kenyan, Adnan Amin.
At the end of April 2011 the IRENA Innovation and Technology Centre in Bonn started work,
headed by its Dutch director Dolf Gielen. As an integral component of the IRENA Secretariat,
the IITC is concerned with scenarios and strategies for the expansion of renewable energy
and technological developments in this sector. Its tasks include drawing up “technology roadmaps”
and analysing favourable framework conditions for technological innovations. The
IITC will also analyse costs and cost trends in the generation of energy from renewable sources
and work on technological standards and test methods. Germany has promised to make
available an annual contribution of up to three million EUR to fund the IITC.
For further information, see www.irena.org.