Stories of Impact: Ocean Energy Pathway
An interview with Ocean Energy Pathway
Who is Ocean Energy Pathway and what do you do?
OEP is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to accelerate global offshore wind growth by providing actionable sector insights that can be used to benefit the climate, support marine ecosystems and engage local communities. We provide expert, independent support to governments and key decision makers to fast-track ambitious offshore wind worldwide.
What is the POWER Library?
The POWER (Publications on Offshore Wind Energy Research) Library is a database where users can go to search for hundreds of documents related to offshore wind. There’s everything from industry written reports to government policies, NGO analyses, and scientific research papers.
Offshore wind is a quickly-evolving sector with a lot of high-quality research, data and policy developments. The data however is often hard to find and time consuming to sift through so the POWER Library is designed to address this as a simple searchable tool for stakeholders to access and search for any information on offshore wind worldwide.
The database is updated regularly and is designed to be a one-stop-shop for anybody looking to find out more about offshore wind. Its main purpose is to help facilitate a knowledge transfer to help offshore wind stakeholders make informed decisions on how offshore wind would work best for them - based on the available data and research.
What is OEP’s relationship with Climate Policy Radar?
While OEP curates the documents on the database, Climate Policy Radar’s artificial intelligence and data science is the brains behind the POWER Library, helping to turn the vast amounts of reports and insights into easily searchable, accessible information.
Throughout the development of the POWER Library, we worked closely with CPR to design the POWER Library front page and develop intuitive metadata to make the platform usable and easily searchable for our users.
OEP and CPR share the goals to advance access to evidence, support data-driven decision-making, and strengthen the information infrastructure for offshore wind energy.
What are your goals with the POWER Library?
First and foremost, the POWER Library is a learning tool. We want it to be used so that people around the world, be they students, policymakers, researchers, developers, or just people interested in renewable energy, can find out the information they need in one place. We recently had the opportunity to showcase the POWER Library to a number of attendees from government, academia, civil society and industry at the 18th National Symposium of the Philippines Association of Marine Science (PAMS).
“As we engage with the marine science and conservation community, the POWER Library has proven to be a valuable resource in their search for comprehensive information on offshore wind. It serves as an indispensable tool for deepening knowledge, supporting research, and fostering collaboration among researchers, students, industry stakeholders, and government regulators.” Rizaller Amolo, Country Head, Philippines, at Ocean Energy Pathway.
We hope the POWER Library can help policymakers and other stakeholders to understand the existing bank of data on offshore wind and use this to inform their own strategies when it comes to the sustainable and inclusive energy transition. Hopefully it will be used as a research tool to help increase offshore wind around the world.
What comes next for the Library?
Going forward we would like to collaborate with more partners and organisations to spread the awareness of the database. We already have a partnership with Offshore Wind Learning. We will also work closely with Climate Policy Radar to continue to update the functionality and usability of the database.
We’re always on the lookout for new reports to add to the POWER Library which people can do by filling in this form or emailing info@oceanenergypathway.org with a subject line “POWER Library.”
Find more about offshore wind by exploring the POWER Library here.