Renewable energy technologies have enormous potential to enable energy transformations to reduce energy environmental impacts, as well as to improve energy access. Open energy resources (hardware, software or data) can support these energy transformations. They are particularly important at smaller scales, where expensive hardware or software licenses are not accessible. 

Multiple (energy) communities have developed valuable open source resources that can be utilized for the design, monitoring and analysis of energy systems. These Open Energy resources provide tools to learn, research and develop solutions that can be collectively developed, freely shared and utilized. Open communities exist both for open source hardware, software and data. A successful example are Python based tools, which are becoming the standard for research.

With these tools communities can, for example, take local measurements to develop, monitor and control local energy systems, improving the resilience and economical viability of Mini-grids. Simultaneously the data can be shared to support other processes in other communities. In this way, open energy resources are able to remove limitations that would hinder or slow local transformations.

During the workshop we will introduce multiple open energy resources: Open Data Logging, Open Data Analysis with Python and Open Data. Within the Open Data Logging, the participants will understand concepts of data logging and utilize it to take measurements in parameters relevant to Mini-grids with data loggers that utilize open hardware. This will be the first public presentation of OpenREDL, the open source data logger for renewable energy developed by the PPRE Team!

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