Climate Vulnerability and resilience Solutions

Building, energy and environment

Service 1: Mi Energía/La meva Energia Web APP

A new digital access channel to increase user energy awareness:
- Universal and valuable for all citizens.
- Personalized tips based on data intelligence
- Complements existing accessibility channels.
- Increase the scope of energy poverty prevention.
- Raise awareness and guarantee the right to energy for all citizens
Provide municipal advisors with an advanced management tool to deliver faster and better service to citizens.

Mi Energía App for Energy Assessment of citizens in Barcelona

Focusing on assessing building-level vulnerability to heat waves
Detailed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over 60,000 residential buildings
Estimation of climate vulnerability using a hybrid AI approach that combines real and simulated data.
Generation of downloadable georeferenced layers of KPIs
Short and long-time projections for building retrofitting, urban greening and vulnerability mitigation actions
Develop an interoperable and scalable data model and optimization methodology that can be applied to other European cities.

Service 2: Vulnerability map

Climate Vulnerability Map of Barcelona

Building characteristics:
- Context of nearby buildings
- Number of dwellings
- Built area per use
- Effective year of construction
- Category / economic value
- Typology
Energy
- Energy systems from EPCs
- Energy consumption from DSOs
- Aggregated data from DATADIS

Weather conditions:
- Microlocal weather file
Demographics and socioeconomics*:
- People per household
- Incomes (sources and annual amount)
- Age range
- Rental Housing Price Index
Building thermal demand
- At building level
- Based on large-scale simulations and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)

(*aggregated to census tract or district)

Service 2: Vulnerability map

KPIs based on Open data sources:

Data platform