Revision as of 16:46, 29 January 2018

Germany

Energy monitoring vision

One tool which easily provides energy data and CO2 balances, an individual package of measures and scenarios to the energy conservation and energy use on municipal level and even on district level. It should bring together geodata with information on energy consumption and power demand as well as energy potentials. It should support all steps of the planning and decision making. Examples:

• http://www.smartgeomatics.de/produkte.html#s2E-web
• http://www.smartgeomatics.de/images/loesungen/quartiersanierung/SG-Flyer-2E-Web_Monitor.pdf

Currently, for energy planning and CO2 balances, there is a variety of data provider (local utility company, statistical offices on different level, private companies in the transport sector and so on). This means on working level to send requests to each provider which is not practical and a solution should be found on this. For the CO2-balances exists a state-wide tool BICO2BW which is used, but still requests are needed. Data on private buildings is not available or/and recorded (e.g. insolation, private energy supply), it also underlies data protections. According to the energy saving order we have the duty for public sector entities (> 500m²) and for some non-residential buildings to get energy cards. Public sector entities must publicly display the energy cards. For private buildings, the information on energy performance is only provided to the owner. Concerning, companies, it is also necessary to request any data. For Non-SMEs, an energy audit and an energy management must be carried out. It is a challenging task to get these private data and due to data protection, it is no public data and has to be anonymised or even aggregated.

Available data

Short explanation of the tables:

• How is the data organized: It could be aggregated, detailed with specific locations, individually recorded per different units, spatial data like maps etc.
• Who is the data provider: the entity or a person that provides the specific data (municipality, departments, agencies, businesses, individuals etc.)
• How frequently is new data made available: regularly, periodically and how often, or on request.
• Access restrictions: is the dataset free, open and available to public or are there any licences needed to use the data.
• Data access point: URL of the data or contact person who is responsible for access to the resource.

Energy sources (production)

Each table provides information about a specific energy source and the data of that energy source. The tables about utility network types refer to the data of the networks of different energy sources.

Energy consumption of municipal buildings

Tables provide information about consumption of the specific energy source in municipal buildings. Each different energy source can have its own table, or it can be merged with other energy source.

Energy performance of municipal buildings

The table provides information about the data of energy performance of municipal buildings.

Energy consumption of non-municipal buildings

Energy performance of non-municipal buildings

The table provides information about the data of energy performance of non-municipal buildings.

Energy consumption for transport

The tables provide information about the consumption of energy for transportation uses and about the data of the consumption. Each table has a specific category of transport and it could be: municipal fleet vehicles, public transport or private/commercial transport.

Transport network data

The tables provide information about different type of transport network that is available. Transport networks could be spatial maps (cadastres) of roads, railways, bike lanes, public transport lines and any other type of transport network.

Energy consumption for public lighting

The tables provide information about the consumption of energy for public lighting and data about the network of public lighting.

CO2 emission factors

The table provides information about the factors of CO2 emissions and the data that refers to these factors.

Missing data

Required ICT tools

For a tool which easily provides energy data and CO2 balances, an individual package of measures and scenarios to the energy conservation and energy use on municipal level and even on district level. It is important to have geodata with information on energy consumption and power demand as well as energy potentials.

• Data should be available on the same level (as smaller the level the better, e.g. households).
• Data should be recorded regularly (same cycle) and to develop a regularly sequence.
• Data should be provided to the municipality – not on request to different institutions.
• Data should be available/provided in a standardized format easily used for GIS analysis (e.g. some data only come as info via Email not in a table or something. It has to prepared for analytical usage, GIS etc).
• As skills it would be necessary to have more GIS experts working in municipalities who are also have planning skills (Energy).
• For CO2-balances exists a state-wide tool BICO2BW which is used by the municipality.
• Data is also recorded for the European Energy Award as well as for the SECAP / CoM.
• Data on private buildings is not available or/and recorded (e.g. insolation, private energy supply), it also underlies data protections.

Please also see “Vision”.