Two of Europe’s leading renewables organisations, REEEP and REN21, have developed a new animation tool within its reegle platform for visualising trends in European countries over time. Users of reegle, the specialist search engine for renewable energy and energy efficiency, can now select energy statistics in European countries and compare them visually using a time lapse animation on a full-screen map.

The underlying data provided by Eurostat is available for more than a decade, back to 1997. Users can digest trends over time visually, and compare how different European countries have moved forward on clean energy over the selected period. The new function is a new addition to the searchable map at the heart ofwww.reegle.info. With this map, users can click on a specific country and get the latest events, news, and a sampling of green energy development projects in that area. There is also a catalogue of stakeholders and an energy-oriented profile of the relevant country, and information on local green energy policies and regulations.

“This new animation tool really helps make European renewable energy and energy efficiency trends much more accessible”, says Florian Bauer, the site’s Product Manager. “Over time, we will be looking to expand the geographic range of the animation feature, and also will look at bringing in renewable resource potential.

It’s an exciting way to help change perceptions visually.” reegle is a public online resource provided by REEEP (Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership) and REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century), funded by the British Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (MINVROM) and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management (BMLFUW).