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Global Energy Network Institute

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Formation
  
1986

Region served
  
Global

Founded
  
1986

Type
  
Nonprofit organization

Location
  
San Diego, California

Founder
  
Peter Meisen

President
  
Peter Meisen

Similar
  
American Council on Renewab, American Wind Energy A, Rocky Mountain Institute

The Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) is a research and education organization founded by Peter Meisen in 1986 and registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in 1991. GENI's focus is on the interconnection of electric power transmission networks between nations and continents, emphasizing tapping abundant renewable energy resources, and utilizing the efficiencies of seasonal, time of day, and load differences around the world.

Contents

Renewable Energy Interconnected Global Grid

GENI's goal is to educate world leaders and policy makers on the benefits of this global strategy. The concept of an interconnected global grid linked to renewable resources was first suggested by Buckminster Fuller in the World Game simulation in the 1970s. Fuller concluded that this strategy is the highest priority of the World Game simulation, (see page 206 of Fuller's book Critical Path (1981, ISBN 0-312-17491-8).

GENI has organized international workshops on international electricity transmission grids and coordinated workshops on renewable energy generation, the latter hosted by the IEEE Power Engineering Society.

GENI is one of the original members of American Council on Renewable Energy and has been a regular presence at the World Energy Congress, held internationally every 3 years.

GENI has stated that one reason technologies to accelerate the use of renewable energy and to avert climate change were not making headway in the marketplace has been the lack of ways for investors to track and easily invest in these technologies. Because of this, in 2004, GENI partnered with KLD, who creates socially conscious investing stock indexes in the US, to create the KLD Global Climate 100 stock index. The index became available for investment in Japan in 2005 and in the U.S. on April 24, 2007.

Research

GENI's research includes information about national electricity power grids; location and availability of renewable energy resources; international integrated energy models; current national energy usage (by fuel type) and global issues that are addressed by the GENI concept, such as international relations, human security, peace and disarmament, the environment, conflict and development, and global health.

Key Personnel

  • Peter Meisen, Founder and President (University of California, San Diego, Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences)
  • Paul-Michael Dekker, IT Director (University of Waterloo, B.A.Sc. Systems Design Engineering)
  • Patricia Stevens, Chief of Operations (University of Washington, MSc Food Science and Technology)
  • Incorporation

    The Global Energy Network Institute (or GENI) is a research and education organization founded in 1986. It was officially registered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Corporation in 1991.

    References

    Global Energy Network Institute Wikipedia