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| Developer(s) | Government of Canada | Multiple |
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| Initial release | April 30, 1998 |
| Stable release | RETScreen Expert Version 9.0
/ 29 September 2022 |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Size | 358 MB |
| Available in | 37 languages |
List of languages Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Mongolian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese | |
| Website | www |
The RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software (usually shortened to RETScreen Expert) is a software package developed by the Government of Canada. RETScreen Expert was highlighted at the 2016 Clean Energy Ministerial held in San Francisco.[1] The Government of Canada's Treasury Board Secretariat uses RETScreen Expert as its greenhouse gas reporting tool for all federal departments and agencies required to report emissions.[2]
RETScreen Expert is the current version of the software and was released to the public on September 19, 2016. The software allows for the comprehensive identification, assessment and optimization of the technical and financial viability of potential renewable energy, energy efficiency and cogeneration projects; the measurement and verification of the actual performance of facilities; the identification of energy savings/production opportunities; and portfolio management of multiple facilities.[3] "Viewer mode" in RETScreen Expert is free and permits access to significant functionality of the software. Unlike past versions of RETScreen, however, a new "Professional mode" (which allows users to save and print, as well as to access premium features) is now available on an annual subscription basis.
Unlike the previous RETScreen Suite, RETScreen Expert is one integrated software platform; utilizes detailed and comprehensive archetypes for assessing projects; and includes portfolio analysis capability. RETScreen Expert integrates a number of databases to assist the user, including a global database of climatic conditions obtained from 6,700 ground-based stations and NASA satellite data; benchmark database; cost database; project database; hydrology database and product database.[4] The software contains extensive integrated training material, including an electronic textbook.[5]
- ^ "Canada, Mexico and the United States Show Progress on North American Energy Collaboration". News.gc.ca. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
- ^ "Government of Canada's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory". 19 October 2017.
- ^ "RETScreen eLearning". YouTube.
- ^ "NASA - NASA Collaboration Benefits International Priorities of Energy Management". Nasa.gov. 24 February 2010. Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ^ "Clean Energy Project Analysis, RETScreen® Engineering & Cases Textbook: M154-13/2005E-PDF - Government of Canada Publications" (PDF). Publications.gc.ca. July 2002. Retrieved 24 February 2016.