BC Energy Maps

A high-resolution map of housing energy demand across the province of British Columbia

Background

This repository has been created to provide access to: The BC Housing Energy Demand model, which provides maps of energy demand from residential buildings across the province of British Columbia, Canada. Publication: An open source, high spatial resolution, housing energy demand model for British Columbia, Canada [1] Authors: Connor McGookin, Taco Niet

Downloading the BC Housing Energy Demand model

The BC Housing Energy Demand model was built in QGIS using only open, publicly available data. It is freely available for download here - https://zenodo.org/records/19834144, and reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Installing QGIS

QGIS is an open source software available for download here - https://www.qgis.org/download/

Reference

[1] McGookin, C., Niet, T. (in review) An open source, high spatial resolution, housing energy demand model for British Columbia, Canada.