Global Energy Network

Millennium Project

Global Energy Information System and Network
-- feasibility study -- The options to create and update global energy strategies are too complex and rapidly changing for decisionmakers to make coherent policy. Yet the environmental and social consequences of incoherent policy are so serious that a new global system for the identification, analysis, possible consequence assessment, and synthesis of energy options is justified. Such a system has to be designed so that it can be understood and used by the general public, politicians, and non-scientists, as well as by leading scientists and engineers around the world.

The Millennium Project has begun to study how to begin such a mammoth undertaking. Suggestions are most welcome. The Project will review such sources as OECD's International Energy Agency, DOE's Energy Information Administration, European Renewable Energy Centres Agency, and IEEE's data banks, as well as the use of software applications such as Google, Citizendium (Wikipedia 2.0), and Second Life to understand the current and foreseeable future capabilities. This review will also help generate the key questions for expert interviews and a list of those to interview.

The results of these interviews and previous literature, Internet, and institutional reviews will be put in a draft report. The interviewees and other participants will be invited to review and discuss the initial draft of the report. In addition to improving the quality of the report, they would constitute an initial Global Energy Network that could become the basis of an organization to bring the new system into being.

If you are a specialist in energy issues and would like to be included in the study on its restricted listserve, please email: jglenn@igc.org mentioning your field of exopertise.

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