General Principles
The database is updated
each year following the annual survey of renewable energy
schemes. This serves three purposes:
- To collect information for the year
from projects already held on the database;
- To improve the quality of information
held on these projects where necessary;
- To collect information from projects
not already on the database - either new for the year,
or not already known to RESTATS.
It is an important source
of new data. Due to the confidential nature of the data
only aggregated results are made available. |
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The Approach
The information contained
in the database is collected by a number of methods, including
linking up with other
surveys
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Large projects:
annual survey through questionnaires sent
to project managers. Large numbers of small projects:
estimates based on information collected from a sub-sample
of the projects
- Renewable Energy Projects Survey
(REPS) Questionnaire
- Waste-to-Energy Questionnaire;
for small-scale specialised waste combustion
projects
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Mail shot -
December; follow-up - January
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Telephone follow up
of non-respondents
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Estimates,
where data are not available
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Review quality
and completeness; plan - ‘gap analysis ’surveys
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Continuous Improvement
- RESTATS has a programme of continuous
improvement to data quality
- The survey
highlights areas where better data are needed (‘Gap Analysis
Survey’)
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Renewable Energy project?
Why not tell us about it?
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