Empowering the energy transition through FAIR and open data with the EnerMaps data management tool.  

Wednesday 20 October | 11.00 am to 12.00 pm | Webinar

Accelerating the energy transition is an urgent priority for Europe. By 2050, the EU Green deal targets include at least a 55% reduction of GHG emissions. Further research is required to better understand how to facilitate this change. That’s why accurate, open-source data is a priority to provide scientists and energy experts with the information needed to protect our planet’s future and accelerate the energy transition. 

About

The EnerMaps H2020 project started in April 2020 with the aim of centralising, improving, increasing and ensuring the quality of data in the energy field by creating a user-friendly platform that is open to everyone and based on the principle of FAIR data.   

As part of the EUSEW Sustainable Energy Days, this workshop will give an overview of the existing challenges and initiatives created to contribute to the energy transition and support decision-making among energy professionals. By increasing efficiency among energy professionals, EnerMaps will improve Europe’s competitiveness.      

This workshop is directed towards the intended final users of the EnerMaps platform/tools: academics; public administrators; policy–makers; and industry professionals (energy planners, experts and consultants, research and development professionals, data providers and social innovation experts).    

The session will include a training and a demonstration of the tool from a public partner, a researcher and an industry point of view.  

Speakers

• Jakob Rager, Director and Project Coordinator, Crem
• Simon Pezzutto, Senior Researcher, EURAC Research
• Giulia Conforto, e-think
• Cédric Serugendo, R&D engineer, Crem

Organisation

• Clémence Contant, Communications Manager, REVOLVE

Workshop: Thursday 9 September | 14.00 to 15.30

Location: École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ‐ EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

The EnerMaps project has been selected for the 16th CISBAT Conference dedicated to Carbon Neutral Cities – Energy Efficiency & Renewables in the Digital Era.

Come meet us and see the demo of the EnerMaps tool with our experts!

About

The management of the energy transition depends on the availability and the quality of a large range of data. Data is often difficult to find, mixed in different repositories, resulting in a lack of efficiency for research and energy management. EnerMaps aims to improve data management and accessibility in the field of energy. The purpose of the workshop is to introduce the technical concepts behind the EnerMaps Data Management Tool (EDMT), the Energy Community Gateway, and to demonstrate live its use through concrete examples.

The H2020 project EnerMaps has been working to coordinate and enrich existing energy databases to share and reuse energy data more FAIR’ly and as such more efficiently. For researchers, EnerMaps will provide tools to communicate and disseminate data efficiently, based on existing large scientific repositories.
For the renewable technology industry, energy planners, energy utilities, energy managers, energy consultants, and public administration officers specialised in the energy sector as well as social innovation experts and data providers, EnerMaps will act as a quality-checked database of crucial energy data and a possibility to access rapidly new innovative datasets as well as related insights to inform decision-makers.

Agenda

In this workshop we will present the main challenges of the energy sector that EnerMaps is trying to overcome, and the technical development of tools such as the data sources selection and the database structure. Both of the EnerMaps tools – the Energy Community Gateway and the visualisation tool with the calculation modules – will be presented through case studies to demonstrate the functionalities at the current development stage and their user-friendly navigation.

The afternoon will conclude with an open discussion with the experts.

Speakers

• Jakob Rager, Director and Project Coordinator, Crem
• Simon Pezzutto, Senior Researcher, EURAC Research
• Eric Wilczynski, PhD Student Researcher, EURAC Research
• Giuseppe Peronato, Post-doc Researcher, Idiap
• Diane von Gunten, Co-Responsible for R&D, Crem
• Cédric Serugendo, R&D engineer, Crem

Organisation

• Jérôme Kaempf, Senior Researcher, Idiap
• Clémence Contant, Communications Manager, REVOLVE