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Open Source geospatial applications for energy and environment integration

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Open Source geospatial applications for energy and environment integration
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The use of GIS to support energy planning is now widespread and well consolidated, as evidenced by the numerous studies available in the international literature. Many companies and governmental institutions have transferred their data and results into open source web platforms or tools for public access. Within the broad topic of the interaction between renewable energy and environment, over the last years RSE S.p.A. has faced the necessity to develop and maintain WebGIS and online platforms related to various aspects of the energy system, in order to characterize the territory and its possible influences on renewable energy sources integration in the energy system, thus supporting the decision-making process towards energy transition. One of the most significant products is the Integrated Atlas for the National Energy System and Renewable Sources, a WebGIS platform which represents on a national scale significant variables of the energy sector (resources, demand, installed plants, territorial constraints) under a system view, with the principal aim of supporting energy planning. From a technical point of view the Integrated Atlas is developed on TerriaMap, a catalogue-based web geospatial visualisation platform developed by the Australian research centre CSIRO. TerriaMap uses the JavaScript library TerriaJS together with other open source libraries as React JS, Leaflet and Cesium, for 3D visualization. Besides standard WebGIS functionalities, the Integrated Atlas provides the access to TOTEM (Territory Overview Tool for Energy Models), an advanced open source tool for the energetical characterization of the territory, essential for supporting multi-energy modelling. Starting from spatial and energy data, the TOTEM tool estimates electrical and heat demand, wind and solar resource and other significant energy variables on hourly and provincial scale. Concerning technical details, the tool and its web interface are developed in Python and use libraries such as Pandas, Flask ad Bokeh. The tool is opensource and it will be release under MIT License, however only a portion of the input data are currently publicly available due to data providers’ restrictions. The need to harmonize data and analysis about the relations between energy and environment and provide an access point to the developed tools has inspired the creation of the Energy and Environment Geoportal, based on the Mapstore Open Source web platform developed by GeoSolutions. This platform allows viewing and querying geospatial published data, integrating different remote resources into interactive and immediate representations such as maps, dashboard or geostories. As an example, detailed results of above cited multi-energy models, which receive spatialized energy data as inputs, have been synthesized in a geostory, an immersive narration which explains how a multi-energy analysis based on detailed territorial characterization of a region can support the evaluation of the best alternatives for its energy development. The geostory is accessible from the Energy and Environment Geoportal. It must be specified that these products are still under development and subject to continuous updates of both data and technology. More details about contents and tools are left to the final presentation.
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Hi everyone, I'm Lorenzo Stucchi, I'm a PhD student at Politecco di Milano, but also my PhD is co-founded by Recherka Systeme Energetico, an RSC that is an entire private company but is based on public money, and the work that I'm going to present is a combination of my use of different tools already existed and well-known in the community and that I also suggest you to discover because they are very useful for creating different instruments and
the main goal was to create an ecosystem that is completely open source, that is composed of different, several different tools like database, like Atlas to showing a new maps, and so a complete ecosystem that is completely based on open source. And the use of GIS is also quite usage in the community of renewable energy
but this still needs some help for having this tool as open source because they are still based on kind of proprietary software that are yet well known in between them. And also the goal is also to create, to have various aspects from the characterization of the territory to the study of the influences of the renewable energy and the support of decision-making. So what has been done is the creation of a sequence of tools
mainly based on Postgres and GeoServer that could be interfaced and help all the dissemination of the different maps and products that have been created from the different departments inside the company. So what has been created is everything is open source, is published on GitHub
so you find all the different projects that I'm going to present to you. So the first one is Energy and Environmental Geoporter. It is based on Map Store, that is quite known. This product is developed by GeoSolution and it is used to create an access point to share between all the different products that I showed before.
So there are different types of products. You can also create inside GeoStories where you can, for example, you use one for creating a story about how a use case is about the use of a reactor, but also you can use it for creating connection without a project.
So in our ecosystem, this is the main action point. Then we have the Integrated Atlas that is based on Terra.js that if you don't know Terra.js, I suggest you to discover it more. Unluckily, there is a presentation happening now in room 4 about Terra.js so you cannot attend that, but you can watch it online later. It's very interesting, really performing. It's developed by
community in CSIRO in Australia, and our goal is to collect some important and relevant layers about renewable energy from different sectors since the company's structure according to different photovoltaic plants, hydrological plants. So the goal is to create a portal where you are able to understand that all the different possible
renewable energy sources are on your site. The only issue is that it is only limited to Italy because the company is Italian and the data that we are able to reach are only Italian. But the main goal of this presentation is to show you how this could be created and you used from also a planner to discover data all over the country and using all the open source software.
The last tool that I'm going to present is the only one that we totally completely developed. It's called TOTEM, TOTEM Theory Overview Tool for Energy Modeling. It's more an energetical characterization model. It's developed by us. It's based on some algorithm well-known in the community that are used to
model exactly to decide from to provide our instrument to decide which should be the right combination between the different type of renewable energy resources. So we can provide estimation of heat demand and electrical demand based on data that we have on our research from 2019. And but also you can estimate wind and solar resources and other significant variables all provided at hourly and provincial scale.
The tool is open source. It is under meter license. So it can be also adapted for that if you have some kind of data on the other part of the world, it can be adapted and all the code, the main code of the tool is open source.
You can test it online and there is the final visualization that is shown here that is based on some kind of provinces, is based on Python and book in pandas or well-known library that are also cray-cray cool graphs. So thank you. Thank you. You have more time, but you have been so quick.