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Webmapping Tools, Interactive Maps, Visualization and Further Analysis

Global Atlas for Renewable Energy

Global Atlas Gallery 3.0 - IRENA
http://irena.masdar.ac.ae/
PVGIS - Solar radiation and PV maps, JRC http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvgis/
Renewable Energy for Rural Electrification

in Africa - RE2nAF, JRC
http://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/re2naf.html
REN21 Interactive Map http://www.ren21.net/status-of-renewables/ren21-interactive-map/
OpenStreetMap - Africa http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Africa
AfricaMap - WorldMap - Harvard University https://worldmap.harvard.edu/africamap/
Global Wind Atlas http://globalwindatlas.com/map.html
Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment (SWERA) - Web Mapping Tool, Data for Solar and Wind Renewable Energy https://maps.nrel.gov/swera

 

Maps and Geodata for Downloading

Global map of Accessibility - 2000, 2015 http://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/
Global map of Accessibility - Data Sources http://forobs.jrc.ec.europa.eu/products/gam/sources.php
Global map of Accessibility - 2015 https://roadlessforest.eu/map.html
Accessibility to cities - 2015 https://map.ox.ac.uk/research-project/accessibility_to_cities/
Global population data http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw
WorldPop, AfriPop - Population Data http://www.worldpop.org.uk/
Global Digital Elevation Model - 90m SRTM http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org
Global Land Cover 2000

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/scientific-tool/global-land-cover

Africa - Free Spatial Data Sets

http://free-gis-data.blogspot.it/2009/01/africa-maps-layers-and-data-totally.html

'Africa Information Highway' Portal

http://dataportal.opendataforafrica.org/

 

Static Maps, Visualization and Further Analysis

African Energy Atlas 2010 http://www.africa-energy.com/african-energy-atlas   (PDF)
World Energy Atlas 2009,

Energy Map of Africa, 2008 Edition
http://www.worldenergyatlas.com/Titles/energymapafrica2008.htm

The Renewable Energy Policy Network REN21

http://www.ren21.net
Renewable Energy + Information Services

(Login is needed)
http://www.3tier.com
   
   
Methodology and Data Szabo, S., Bodis, K., Huld, T., Moner-Girona, M., 2011, Energy solutions in rural Africa: mapping electrification costs of distributed solar and diesel generation versus grid extension. Environmental Research Letters, Volume 6, Issue 3. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034002.
   









Last update: 05-02-2018



Contact: Katalin Bódis (JRC C.2)