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Mar 24 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
This is fantastic news: today, at its 2022 Ministerial Meeting, @FBirol announced that the @IEA would be making its energy data freely available "in the interest of supporting data transparency and supporting good decision-making."
youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-15FS…
This is a major milestone in the campaign that @MBazilian, @afromusing and I - and quite a few others - helped kick off a decade ago with this paper:
econpapers.repec.org/article/eeeene…
There have been many people involved along the way. Of particular note, everyone behind @openmod #openmod, @daniel_huppmann, @nworbmot. I would like to think I gave them a modicum of useful support via my #freethemodels hashtag.
More recently, it was @MaxCRoser and @_HannahRitchie who banged the drum for open energy data, including via this article by Hannah, which appeared in Nature in October 2021.
nature.com/articles/d4158…
And then there was this open letter to the @IEA, organised by Malte Schaeffer and signed by 37 academics, urging them to make their data available to all: forum.openmod.org/t/open-letter-…
So, bottom line, great teamwork from a lot of people. Well done all, and thank you @fbirol and @IEA!

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