BALI, December 11, 2007 (GLOBE-Net) - Canada’s Environment Minister, John Baird, together with Natural Resources Minister, Gary Lunn, today officially launched the latest version of RETScreen, a highly successful software tool developed by Natural Resources Canada to help assess the viability of clean energy projects. The software, available in 26 languages is provided free to industry and the public includes a full array of financially viable clean power, heating and cooling technologies and energy efficiency measures.
The RETScreen International Clean Energy Decision Support Centre seeks to build the capacity of planners, decision-makers and industry to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This objective is achieved by: developing decision-making tools (e.g. RETScreen Software) that reduce the cost of pre-feasibility studies; disseminating knowledge to help people make better decisions; and by training people to better analyse the technical and financial viability of possible projects.
The RETScreen Project Analysis Software is a unique decision support tool developed with the contribution of numerous experts from government, industry, and academia. The software, provided free-of-charge, can be used worldwide to evaluate the energy production and savings, life-cycle costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies (RETs).
The software also includes product, cost and climate databases, and a detailed online user manual. Other tools include: a case study based college/university-level training course; an engineering electronic textbook; and this Website. All of these tools are available free-of-charge in English and French, with many of the tools available in other languages.
It is used worldwide by more than 129,000 people, including architects, planners, investors and industry decision makers. The Government of Canada and partners have invested $1.8 million over the past two years to create the latest and most in-depth version of RETScreen.
The demand for the new version is expected to be high with new features such as energy-efficiency models used for residential, commercial and institutional buildings and for industrial facilities and processes, additional language support and access to NASA’s global climate data for the entire surface of the planet.
The RETScreen International Clean Energy Decision Support Centre seeks to build the capacity of planners, decision-makers and industry to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. This objective is achieved by: developing decision-making tools (e.g. RETScreen Software) that reduce the cost of pre-feasibility studies; disseminating knowledge to help people make better decisions; and by training people to better analyse the technical and financial viability of possible projects.
The RETScreen Project Analysis Software is a unique decision support tool developed with the contribution of numerous experts from government, industry, and academia. The software, provided free-of-charge, can be used worldwide to evaluate the energy production and savings, life-cycle costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of energy efficient and renewable energy technologies (RETs).
The software also includes product, cost and climate databases, and a detailed online user manual. Other tools include: a case study based college/university-level training course; an engineering electronic textbook; and this Website. All of these tools are available free-of-charge in English and French, with many of the tools available in other languages.
It is used worldwide by more than 129,000 people, including architects, planners, investors and industry decision makers. The Government of Canada and partners have invested $1.8 million over the past two years to create the latest and most in-depth version of RETScreen.
The demand for the new version is expected to be high with new features such as energy-efficiency models used for residential, commercial and institutional buildings and for industrial facilities and processes, additional language support and access to NASA’s global climate data for the entire surface of the planet.
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