Tools and data to decarbonize cities: Citiwatts, CoolLIFE & an EU-27 Mapping of Financing Schemes
summary
Open‑source platforms deliver runnable planning: CityWats (Hotmaps evolution) maps heat and cooling layers, runs district‑heating potential and dispatch modules, exports CSVs and can cherry‑pick pixels meeting thresholds (demo uses 7 GWh minimum and 150 MWh pixels). CoolLIFE projects cooling demand and runs economic scenarios where baseline cooling rises from ~2,580 GWh to >4,000 GWh by 2050 but passive+active measures cut demand to ~800 GWh. A Europe‑wide dataset of ~600 schemes (two thirds public) is published on Zenodo and the RHC accelerator.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Decarbonization tools intro
- 6:55Citywatts platform overview
- 37:19CoolLIFE sustainable cooling
- 1:05:12EU-27 financing schemes
- 1:27:03Q&A
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