Emerging technologies applied to the renewable energy sector

Abstract

The Report aims to identify a number of initiatives on the renewable energy sector that uses emerging technologies to enhance its efficiency and scalability. The initiatives mapped had relative small size, in order to allow them to be replicated or adapted in other contexts, especially small municipalities. As a second objective the Report developed a methodology that allow us to measure the level of “replicability” that a given initiative would have. By that, we mean how adaptable to other contexts a given initiative is. The Report thus present a number of initiatives and apply the methodology on them in order to assess whether they are or not capable to replicate or adapt such initiatives in differernt contexts. The Report works under the assumption that it is possible to make available some of the most advanced good practices to some smaller and/or isolated municipalities that generally do not have access to vanguard innovations.