ARTICLE Wierling_ENERGIES_2021/IDIAP FAIR Metadata Standards for Low Carbon Energy Research?A Review of Practices and How to Advance Wierling, August Schwanitz, Valeria Jana Altinci, Sebnem Bałazińska, Maria Barber, Michael J. Biresselioglu, Memet Efe Burger-Scheidlin, Cristopher Celino, Massimo Demir, Muhittin Hakan Dennis, Richard Dintzner, Nicolas el Gammal, Adel Fernández-Peruchena, Carlos M. Gilcrease, Winston Gładysz, Paweł Hoyer-Klick, Carsten Joshi, Kevin Kruczek, Mariusz Lacroix, David Markowska, Małgorzata Mayo-García, Rafael Morrison, Robbie Paier, Manfred Peronato, Giuseppe Ramakrishnan, Mahendranath Reid, Janeita Sciullo, Alessandro Solak, Berfu Suna, Demet Süß, Wolfgang Unger, Astrid Fernandez Vanoni, Maria Luisa Vasiljevic, Nikola EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/papers/2021/Wierling_ENERGIES_2021.pdf PUBLIC Energies 14 20 2021 10.3390/en14206692 doi The principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability (FAIR) have been put forward to guide optimal sharing of data. The potential for industrial and social innovation is vast. Domain-specific metadata standards are crucial in this context, but are widely missing in the energy sector. This report provides a collaborative response from the low carbon energy research community for addressing the necessity of advancing FAIR metadata standards. We review and test existing metadata practices in the domain based on a series of community workshops. We reflect the perspectives of energy data stakeholders. The outcome is reported in terms of challenges and elicits recommendations for advancing FAIR metadata standards in the energy domain across a broad spectrum of stakeholders.