II: Cool Planning

The aim, context and further information about this toolchain are presented in a video-tutorial:

The Cool Planning Toolchain

For the District Cooling scenario assessment only one calculation module is required:

Cooling CM: District Cooling

eLearning Materials for the Cool Planning Toolchain

The Citiwatts-toolbox, incl. the cool planning components, was developed in the OpenGIS4ET-project. For this project, an eLearning class was conducted, in which this toolchain was applied for a lecture and exercises. The materials from this class are presented in this section.

Webinar Recording

Please find a recording of the webinar to this toolchain on our Youtube-Channel (Sections on District Cooling CM):

Presentation

The presentation form the eLearning class can be downloaded here: 20250403_citiwatts_eLearning_II Heating and Cooling.pdf

Download: District Cooling Scenario Assessment Excel Tool

We prepared an Excel tool that compiles inputs, outputs, and result diagrams from District Cooling-related CM runs. It is called "District Cooling Scenario Assessment". It can be downloaded here and filled out in parallel with the execution of online module calculations.

To support users in documenting, comparing and analysing input parameters and results of examined scenarios an Excel tool was developed. It also provides some result diagrams and can be downloaded here: citiwatts_DistrictCooling_ScenarioAssessment_09_2025.xlsx

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Final remarks

How To Cite

OpenGIS4ET Team, in citiwatts Wiki, Cool planning page in the Learning Center section (August/September 2025)

Authors And Reviewers

This page was written by the OpenGIS4ET Team and namely by

PlanEnergi: Max Guddat and Eva Wiechers

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 International License.

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License-Text: https://spdx.org/licenses/CC-BY-4.0.html

Acknowledgement

The project “Open Geographic Information System for Energy Transition” (OpenGIS4ET, Project Number 111 786) has been supported by partners of the ERA-Net Smart Energy Systems and Mission Innovation through the Joint Call 2020. As such, this project has received funding from the

Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUDP), Denmark (Project No.: 64021-6026),
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany (Project No.: 03EI4050B),
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Austria (Project No.: 889031),
Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), Switzerland (Project No.: 502364).

The OpenGIS4ET project builts on the H2020 Hotmaps Project.

For more details please refer to the About page of this wiki.

Disclaimers

The content and views expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinion of the ERA-Net SES initiative. Any reference given does not necessarily imply the endorsement by ERA-Net SES.

The citiwatts toolbox is a living platform: As the research project as well as its sister and follow-up projects evolve, (new) functionalities are refined and bugs are addressed and solved. The toolbox is hosted in two environments: the development server and the production server. The development server has the most up-to-date version, with most of issues and bugs solved, but it might be unstable as developers keep working on it daily. The production server instead is a stable environment.

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