Policy Analysis with RETScreen (Webinar)

The Clean Energy Solutions Center, in partnership with CanmetENERGY (Government of Canada), hosted this webinar on how to use the RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software for policy development.
While RETScreen is well-known around the world as a tool to analyze the viability of clean energy projects, it is also useful for planning, designing, implementing, and reviewing the viability of clean energy policies. RETScreen allows participants in the policy process to consider the technology, business, and finance of clean energy in an integrated fashion, thus helping to develop appropriate and ultimately successful policies. The webinar introduced the RETScreen Clean Energy Policy Toolkit and concretely demonstrated how RETScreen can be used for different elements of the policy development cycle.
The RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software is the world’s leading clean energy decision-making software. Used by over 460,000 people all over the world, taught in over 700 universities and colleges, available in 36 languages and developed in collaboration with NASA, REEEP, the United Nations and the World Bank, RETScreen has already saved its users well over $8 billion and is making it easier for the world to transition to cleaner energy.
Webinar presentations were be followed by an interactive question and answer session with the audience.
Panelists
DINESH S. PARAKH
Dinesh S. Parakh manages strategic partnerships, communications, business development, and training & capacity building for RETScreen International at Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetENERGY research centre in Varennes, Quebec. He is also the lead author of the RETScreen Clean Energy Legal Toolkit and the RETScreen Clean Energy Policy Toolkit. A lawyer in Ontario, Dinesh has worked in international development since 1999 with extensive experience throughout Africa. He was formerly with the United Nations Development Programme and World Food Programme in South Africa, as well as the Canadian International Development Agency in Ottawa, Canada. Dinesh holds a B.A. from Yale University, and an M.A. and J.D. from the University of Toronto.
MICHAEL ROSS
Michael Ross has been supporting the RETScreen team at Natural Resources Canada’s CanmetENERGY research centre in Varennes, Quebec as a consultant since 2001. He has developed much of the training material available on the RETScreen website, contributed to the RETScreen e-Textbook, supplied input cost data for upcoming versions of RETScreen, and performed validation of RETScreen 4, RETScreen Plus and RETScreen Expert. He has delivered RETScreen courses, in both English and French, across Canada, and in the USA, France, Mali, and Zambia. Michael has been working in the fields of renewable energy and energy efficiency since 1995, with a focus on solar and wind energy. Michael obtained a Bachelor of Applied Sciences degree (Systems Design Engineering) from the University of Waterloo.