GIS-based urban energy systems models and tools: Introducing a model for the optimisation of flexibilisation technologies in urban areas
Flexibilisation in Geographic Information Systems
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License (BSD-3-Clause)
Modelling and optimisation mathematical model
simualte local urban demand and supply, localise distributed storage, minimise total system costs
FlexiGIS: an open source GIS-based platform for modelling energy systems and flexibility options in urban areas. It extracts, filters and categorises the geo-referenced urban energy infrastructure, simulates the local electricity consumption and power generation from on-site renewable energy resources, and allocates the required decentralised storage in urban settings using oemof-solph. FlexiGIS investigates systematically different scenarios of self-consumption, it analyses the characteristics and roles of flexibilisation technologies in promoting higher autarky levels in cities. The extracted urban energy infrustructure are based mainly on OpenStreetMap data.