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Since the UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio 1992, bi- and multilateral donors stress that development assistance has increasingly been oriented towards climate friendly interventions. With respect to energy aid, this should lead to a substantial increase of projects related to renewable energy and energy efficiency. We use the new project-level aid (PLAID) database of over 750,000 aid activities for 21 OECD DAC donor countries to assess whether such a reorientation has indeed taken place. Based on extensive keyword search and hand-coding on the basis of individual project descriptions, we generate a specific coding system for the relevant categories of aid activities.