FlexiGIS: Open source GIS-based platform for the optimisation of flexibility options in urban areas

FlexiGIS is an open source GIS-based platform for modelling energy systems and flexibility options in urban areas. FlexiGIS stands for Flexibilisation in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). 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. 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 infrastructure are based mainly on Open Street Map data.

Author

Alaa Alhamwi, <alaa.alhamwi@dlr.de>

Organization

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DLR - Institute of Networked Energy Systems, Department of Energy Systems Analysis

Version

1.0.0

Date

13.12.2019

User's Guide:

Model Documentation:

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Publications List

  • Alaa Alhamwi, W. Medjroubi, T. Vogt, C. Agert, GIS-based urban energy systems models and tools: Introducing a model for the optimisation of flexibilisation technologies in urban areas, Applied Energy, Volume 191, 1-9 (2017), 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.01.048, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.01.048.

  • Alaa Alhamwi, W. Medjroubi, T. Vogt, C. Agert, OpenStreetMap data in modelling the urban energy infrastructure: a first assessment and analysis, Energy Procedia, Volume 142, 1968–1976 (2017), 10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.397, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.12.397.

  • Alaa Alhamwi, W. Medjroubi, T. Vogt, C. Agert, Modelling urban energy requirements using open source data and models, Applied Energy, Volume 231, 1100-1108 (2018), 10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.09.164.

  • Alaa Alhamwi, W. Medjroubi, T. Vogt, C. Agert, FlexiGIS: an open source optimisation platform for the optimisation of flexibility options in urban energy systems, Energy Procedia, Volume 152, 941-949 (2018), 10.1016/j.egypro.2018.09.097, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2018.09.097.

  • Alaa Alhamwi, W. Medjroubi, T. Vogt, C. Agert, Development of a GIS-based platform for the allocation and optimisation of distributed storage in urban energy systems, Applied Energy, Volume 251, 113360 (2019), 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113360, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113360.

  • Joseph Ranalli and Alaa Alhamwi, Configurations of renewable power generation in cities using open source approaches: With Philadelphia case study, Applied Energy, Volume 269, 115027 (2020), 10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115027, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115027

  • Alhamwi et. al, Modelling urban street lighting infrastructure using open source data, to be submitted to IEEE Access, (2020).

License

The FlexiGIS is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause, “New BSD License” or “Modified BSD License”. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted. For more information concerning the BSD-3C and the description of the terms under which you can use the FlexiGIS code, please see opensource licenses.

The OpenStreetMap (OSM) data is available under the Open Database License (ODbL). A description of the ODbL license is available at the opendatacommons licenses. OpenStreetMap cartography is licensed as CC BY-SA. For more information on the copyright of OpenStreetMap please visit the openstreetmap copyright page. The OpenStreetMap data distributed is available under the Open Database License ODbL.

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