About the Citiwatts Toolbox

citiwatts.eu offers an open-source online software that supports the planning processes of the energy sector at local and national levels in a transparent manner. It is a website that allows you to provide a first estimation of the heating and cooling demand in any European region as well as the local renewable energy potentials to meet this demand. Subsequently, by using more detailed data and applying Citiwatts calculation modules, much more comprehensive heating and cooling strategies can be elaborated. Thanks to this software, you will be able to make practical decisions in your area of interest (village, town, city, region, etc.). Moreover, you can analyse scenarios for charging demands of electric vehicles in cities and their surroundings and undertake simplified energy system analyses to study flexibility options.

Citiwatts is the platform developed as part of the OpenGIS4ET project. It extended the H2020 Hotmaps platform, which started to develop a base toolbox and database. The Hotmaps platform reached TRL-7. The OpenGIS4ET team improved the platform's usability and added new tools called calculation modules (CM). The target is to help authorities to develop local, regional, and national heating, cooling, mobility, and sector coupling flexibility strategies, that are in line with RES and CO2 emission targets at national and European level. Newly developed calculation modules and functionalities will be demonstrated by need-owners to reach TRL-8.

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