Open Source Tools to Share, Compare, and Reuse Low-Carbon Energy Data

Informations projet

EnerMaps

N° de convention de subvention: 884161

DOI

10.3030/884161

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 6 Février 2020

Date de début 1 Avril 2020

Date de fin 30 Juin 2022

Financé au titre de

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Secure, clean and efficient energy

Coût total

€ 999 975,00

Contribution de l’UE

€ 999 975,00

Coordonné par

CENTRE DE RECHERCHE CREM
Switzerland

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - EnerMaps (Open Source Tools to Share, Compare, and Reuse Low-Carbon Energy Data)

Période du rapport: 2021-07-01 au 2022-06-30

Résumé du contexte et des objectifs généraux du projet

The energy transition and the decarbonization of economic activities demands growing numbers of datasets on increasingly diverse topics. That data is often scattered because heat and/or electricity don’t have common sources. Moreover, energy data is not always available, let alone accessible for non-specialists. This hinders broader participation and acceptance of socio-economic, technical and political measures towards less energy use from more renewable sources. From a research point of view, the unavailability or inaccessibility of data makes reproducibility difficult.
EnerMaps aims to improve data availability, data quality, and data management for the industry, in particular energy planners, managers, consultants, public administration officers in the energy sector as well as policy decision makers and social innovation experts. In other words, the objectives were to provide easy access to energy data under the FAIR principles and with open access tools. As expressed by the projects’ social innovation experts, this is a necessary step for everyone to access energy data and run their own analysis.
The objectives of EnerMaps were fully achieved in developing open science tools to map and analyze energy related data. Complete documentation through a wiki and GitHub as well as training material in the form of videos were released and are available through the projects’ website. The main conclusion of the project confirms the interest from public administration officers and others to use the tools developed within EnerMaps. This is also true for researchers, who can reuse and repurpose those tools to better fit their needs.

Travail effectué depuis le début du projet jusqu’à la fin de la période considérée dans le rapport et principaux résultats atteints jusqu’à présent

The EnerMaps consortium successfully developed and implemented the EnerMaps Data Management Tools (EDMTs). These EDMTs include a gateway or search engine, to access research, publications, data and more in energy production and consumption. The gateway connects through metadata to a second tool, the visualization of datasets in space and in Europe. Together with a series of analysis tools or so-called calculation models, users can analyze different datasets and run their own calculations at a low level of aggregations. Much work has been achieved in dissemination of the tools at multiple levels. A wiki was finalized shortly after the availability of the analysis tools online. Training material was also made easily accessible to a broad audience and multiple training event have been organized. In terms of communication, the EnerMaps consortium was active in the publication of scientific articles as well as on social media to increase the visibility of the results. EnerMaps became a service provider on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and registered the EDMTs to strengthen the contribution of open science to the energy transition.

Progrès au-delà de l’état des connaissances et impact potentiel prévu (y compris l’impact socio-économique et les conséquences sociétales plus larges du projet jusqu’à présent)

Overall, the consortium achieved all its goals with high impact: increasing the use of low-carbon energy related data, and making the data accessible for industry, research as well as policy making and social innovation. The key outputs were the EnerMaps Data Management tools, i.e. a gateway to energy references, publications and data as well as a visualization tool which includes dedicated analysis modules. The consortium also reflected on the outcomes of the project and developed storymaps to increase the discoverability of energy related datasets. A series of guidelines were drafted to improve data communications, from adapting funding criterias to improving data management plans and mandating open science.

EnerMaps accelerates the energy transition