Hotmaps

Resources
  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Technical
  • Europe

Hotmaps is an online tool that offers heating and cooling demand data in any European region as well as the local renewable energy potential to meet this demand. These data help authorities develop heating and cooling strategies in line with renewable energy sources at local, regional and national scale. Data are available for European Union countries and United Kingdom.

Hotmaps allows the following actions:

  • Identify the location of current heating and cooling demand as well as supply on a map
  • Identify renewable energy potential to supply heating and cooling for a selected area
  • Identify waste heat potential from industrial facilities within a selected area
  • Estimate the potential for efficient district heating options within a selected area
  • Estimate and compare the costs of individual heating vs. district heating options within a selected area
  • Develop scenarios for decarbonisation pathways of heating and cooling

Hotmaps is an open source online software.

Author: Hotmaps project
Further knowledge

Explore related resources

Europe

BECoop replication handbook – A comprehensive guide for community-based bioenergy projects

A step-by-step guide to initiating and establishing bioenergy community heating projects

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Community
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
  • Technical
Wind turbine
Europe

Financing guide for energy communities

This guide provides a very first introduction to community energy financing. To make it easy to read and hands-on, it includes 14 practical and recent financing stories of European energy communities.

  • Inspiration
  • Preparation
  • Financial
Solar panels in Ghent
Europe

Community Energy Municipal Guide

This guide presents the different ways municipalities can work with their residents to kickstart and support community energy projects. It builds on the most relevant publications on the topic and includes many examples from all over Europe.

  • Preparation
  • Implementation
  • Financial
  • Political & legal
Support from professionals

Questions about your energy community?

Whether you don’t know where to start from or you are stuck with a specific issue in the development of your energy community, an expert can help you.