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Session 2 - Project Facilitation with RETScreen
Richard Hellen Hermes Energy Services

Facilitation – Making decisions easier
• Energy decisions
– energy is not easy – decisions are not easy –energy decisions are certainly not easy

• Decisions often made by several stakeholders with
– different agendas and – different ways of looking at the world – and different parts of the solutionSome barriers to decision making
• • Understanding the needs of other decision making stakeholders Communicating in the same language:
– – technical language (engineering, economics, policy, …)spoken language

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Exploring all options
– Due to lack of “optioneering” investment

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Comparing options against common basis (apples with apples)
– – failure to quantify adequately failureto explore sensitivities

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RETScreen successfully meets these needs head-on

Facilitation activities at Hermes Energy Services
• Policy
– UK - presentations to
• • • policy makers(Department of Energy and Climate Change) government agencies (Carbon Trust) Sustainable business seminars (Energy & Environment Management Group)

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International – short course for Turkish governmentofficers and academics

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Capacity Building (actually more properly addressed in Session 3)
– UK Workshops to
• • • • energy professionals (consultants) academics (Open University) communitygroups NGOs (Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems)

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International workshops to academics (TERI - The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi in collaboration with the Open University,UK)

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Social Groups (in collaboration with Dave Clubb)
– – RETScreen ning group (http://retscreen.ning.com/) LinkedIn Group(http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=3261698&item=26710441&trk=gmp_ac_c&type=member#c omment)

Session 2 - Presentations and speakers
• Renewable energy programme development in the Caribbean - CARICOM Renewable Energy Deployment project
– Roland Clarke,...