Methodology Of Data Collection

Introduction

The data collection methodology within the citiwatts project is guided by the requirements of the calculation modules (CMs) and follows a structured and transparent pipeline to ensure data relevance, accessibility, and reproducibility across the European context. The process begins with the identification of input data needs by the CM developers. These needs are aligned with the objective of providing pan-European coverage to ensure comparability and scalability of the tools.

Whenever suitable datasets are available at the European level, they are retrieved directly from the original source, republished under the appropriate license, and accompanied by comprehensive metadata and a clear description of their content and provenance. This approach guarantees traceability and proper attribution, in line with FAIR data principles.

In cases where no adequate European-wide data exists, the citiwatts team collaborates with the CM developers to produce synthetic data layers tailored to the specific requirements of the modules. These synthetic datasets are also released with full documentation and metadata, ensuring transparency about the assumptions and methods used in their generation.

This methodology ensures consistency across the different layers used in the platform and maintains a balance between data quality, coverage, and usability for local to EU-wide energy system analyses.

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Final remarks

How To Cite

OpenGIS4ET Team, in citiwatts Wiki, Methodology Of Data Collection page (2025)

Authors And Reviewers

Alejandro Pena-Bello - HES-SO VS - alejandro.penabello@hevs.ch

License

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to convey their deepest appreciation to the ERA-Net OpenGIS4ET Project financed, for the Swiss partners, by the Swiss Federal Office for Energy.

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.

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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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