Access to affordable and clean energy is one of the main Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 7), offering the hope of an inclusive globalization improving the quality of life for all people. Significant effort is needed to reach this goal by supporting international financial institutions to local authorities in pushing this process forward, since it is still not reality for approximately 10 % of the worlds population. Creating efficient and sustainable solutions on national, regional and local scale is an enabler for social welfare, improved healthcare, as well as economical and industrial development. The promise of a clean energy and the related electricity supply adds to the momentum of worldwide electrification and will benefit the world’s climate.

Providing clean energy requires swift and creative measures that affect almost all sectors. Whereas in the international context provision of access can still be a major challenge, the sustainable transformation of infrastructure towards renewable energy sources is taking on a central role. Within the related activities, both reaching a high degree of efficiency and at the same time considering sustainability aspects, regarding

• the choice of green energy resources and optimal locations to harvest,
• the optimisation of existing infrastructure, and at the same time
• the dimensioning of new plants and networks considering future developments,

is only possible on an interdisciplinary basis. It requires a description of the relevant factors that is as precise as possible.

IABGs geospatial analysis incorporates data archives, statistics and long-term experience, to combine the latter with most recent Earth Observation. A range of methods and AI-driven algorithms get adjusted and developed to collaboratively model geospatial, climate and weather data towards bringing the process of sustainable energy transition and implementation forward.