www.webservice-energy.org

The platform webservice-energy.org hosts a collection of Web Services offering data and applications in Renewable Energy. The exploitation of Renewable Energy sources such as solar and wind energy requires accurate knowledge of the resources and their availability -in space and time- as well as accurate forecasts in the different phases of an energy system life cycle.

Web services are a efficient means to access to up-to-date knowledge by achieving connections, and facilitating exchange of data, applications, and information between actors. The Web services are made available to the community by various providers on a for-free access or restricted access basis.

The services are based on W3C standards (WSDL) and SOAP protocol. Cataloging is ensured by the availability of ISO compliant metadata based on the European Commision INSPIRE initiative. Documents (resources) are available to help users to consume Web services and help providers to declare Web services.