I: Heat Planning
The aim, context and further information about heat planning and the heat planning toolchain are briefly presented in a video-tutorial:
The Heat Planning Toolchain
The heat planning toolchain developed in the OpenGIS4ET project can involve:
However, the toolchain primary consist of the application of:
- Heat CM: District Heating Potential: Economic Assessment
- Heat CM: District Heating Supply and
- Individual Heat Supply (integrated directly into the Scenario Assessment Excel Tool).
eLearning Materials for the Heat Planning Toolchain
The Citiwatts-toolbox, incl. this toolchain 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 & Presentation)
Please find a recording of the webinar to this toolchain on our Youtube-Channel (click on the picture):
The presentation from the eLearning class can be downloaded here: 20250403_citiwatts_eLearning_II Heating and Cooling.pdf
Scenario Assessment Spreadsheet
We prepared an Excel tool that compiles inputs, outputs, and result diagrams from heat-related CM runs. It is called "Scenario Assessment" and also includes calculations for the decentralized heat supply scenarios. It can be downloaded below and filled out in parallel with the execution of online module calculations.
Download the Scenario Assessment Spreadsheet here: citiwatts_Heat_ScenarioAssessment_10_2025.xlsx
Versioning
The Scenario Assessment Excel tool was updated in the OpenGIS4ET project. Please find the wiki page of the Hotmaps version here and its github page here.
CSV input generator
In the District Heating Supply CM many input parameters are pre-defined and can be adjusted. To make the scenario definition easier the CSV input generator Excel tool was developed and can be used to upload assumptions into the CM.
Final remarks
How To Cite
OpenGIS4ET Team, in citiwatts Wiki, Heat 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
Copyright © 2022-2025: OpenGIS4ET team
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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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
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Energy Technology Development and Demonstration (EUDP), Denmark (Project No.: 64021-6026),
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Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Germany (Project No.: 03EI4050B),
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The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Austria (Project No.: 889031),
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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.