Hello there! I do have trouble understanding how the urban cooling valuation model concerning the Energy_Consumption works and what exactly the input should be. The input needed is energy consumption per building type, in kW/degC. I get that in order to come to a value that has the unit of kW/deg…

Hi @Michael , thanks for posting! I’ve reached out to our science staff for the model who may be able to provide some insight here. James

Hi! Thank you, that would help a lot. For now, I thought maybe a better way to get a single energy use number / building type is looking at the total energy need of a sector (f.ex. offices) for a region and then dividing that kWh number trough the number of buildings tagged as office in that regio…

Hi @Michael , Thank you for posting these questions about the Energy Consumption Table that is needed as an input to run the valuation component of the Urban Cooling InVEST model. You correctly point out that consumption values ought to be in units of kWh/degC (as kWh is a measure of energy and kW …

Hi Jesse, thanks a lot for the answer, and no worries, the kWh error did not cause me any concerns. Thank you for clearing my question up and providing an example table. I guess it is now clear that kWh/m^2 is not the way to go and, if these numbers are used, they should be upscaled to the buildi…

Hi there @jesseG . I am having a similar problem to @Michael . We are only able to obtain values per m^2. For our local region we found that a commercial building uses 0.07 kWh/m^2 for an increase in 1 degree Celcius, but how do we convert this to a value per building type? The statement “the amount o…

Hi @JoshAnchor , Thanks for your questions about the Urban Cooling model. Frankly, I have minimal experience running this model, so I have reached out to our Urban team to request a more detailed reply to you from @chris . Meanwhile, I will do my best to try to provide some basic clarity. Since you …

Hi @JoshAnchor , As a small add-on to Jesse’s answer, the calculation uses the building classes in your land cover map, not the building footprint vector. The vector is only used in the ‘building intensity’ calculation. The table with energy consumption links to the land cover raster. If you would w…

Hi @royremme . What you are saying doesn’t seem to be implied by the model interface. [image] I am speaking about the Valuation Model under which the Building Footprints Vector (shapefile) looks like it is required.

Ha, Sorry @JoshAnchor , my bad, I was mixing the two components up. Yes, the vector is used for the valuation step, the raster for the building intensity calculation. Roy

Wow ! that is super usefull ROY, I was in the process of creating Energy Star based building types for the energy use piece. Land use identifiers are not very detailed ESP for urban land cover !

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