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The SenMVKU's heat register and the EnergyMap both belong to the family of instruments used to support and carry out city-wide heat planning and concrete implementation planning in Berlin. 

The Berlin heat register of the SenMVKU will be established on legal basis . As an instrument of the Berlin administration and its representatives, the heat register collects a wide range of data on buildings, consumption and heat supply infrastructures and makes it available within the administration for planning purposes. The data in the heat register also includes an area of particularly sensitive infrastructure data that is generally only available to a limited group of users. 

The EnergyMap Berlin was developed by a Consortium from science, administration and companies with the aim of making a specific data set, the heat demand of buildings, which is fundamentally important for planning purposes, publicly available in high resolution (building-specific) and across the board for all stakeholders in heat planning and interested parties. In urban contexts with a large number of stakeholders and heterogeneous infrastructures, the public availability of data is an essential component of the functioning of a planning regime. 

The heat register of the Berlin administration and EnergyMap Berlin are cooperating to provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date data and services possible for a wide range of heat planning in the city. For its planned annual updates, EnergyMap Berlin relies on the provision of mass data from the Berlin heat register, without which an up-to-date forecast of the heat demand of Berlin's building stock could not be calculated for specific buildings. Conversely, the EnergyMap calculations provide the city-wide heat planning with building-specific heat data for areas for which the administration has no corresponding actual data.   

On the EnergyMap homepage, you are offered the opportunity to take part in the heating check. This not only gives you the opportunity to compare your heating energy consumption with others and receive individual support, but you also contribute to improving the EnergyMap with your energy consumption data. 

After a lively exchange with the Berlin data protection officers, the assessment was made that there are no objections to a building-specific publication of the EnergyMap on the part of the Berlin data protection officers based on some special features of our research project. The detailed data protection assessment can be read here. 

You can simply contact us using our contact form at the bottom of the info page or contact us directly at energymap(at)udk-berlin.de. After checking your ownership, we will delete your data from the EnergyMap. 

EnergyMap Berlin supports the direct linking of individual buildings and building blocks. Individual buildings can be linked using their UUID in this form: https://energymap-berlin.de/map/?uuid= (e.g. https://energymap-berlin.de/map/?uuid=DEBE01YYK0002MCN). Building blocks can be linked via their block number in the regional reference system, via the URL https://energymap-berlin.de/map/?blk_id=<Blocknr_im_RBS> (e.g. https://energymap-berlin.de/map/?blk_id=116014). 

For the EnergyMap Berlin, the aim is to update the database annually in order to continue to map demolitions and new buildings, as well as progress in reducing heat consumption and decarbonizing the heat supply of existing buildings in the future. Updates can include both updates of the basic data taken from the official real estate cadastre (ALKIS), for example, as well as the annual recalculation of the predicted building-specific heat consumption. 

Unfortunately, our results can only be as good as the data available to us. Due to inconsistencies between 3D models, ALKIS or OSM (Open Street Map) data or incomplete information on building age, for example, the quality of the results can vary from building to building. Unfortunately, comprehensive, up-to-date information is not available. 

Due to partly uncertain or missing data, unavoidable errors may occur. We are grateful for any comments and will try to correct them. Please use the contact form at the bottom of this info page or contact us directly at energymap(at)udk-berlin.de and we will check your request. 

The transferability of the EnergyMap Berlin was tested using the municipality of Michendorf in Brandenburg as part of the project. An extension to other areas is in principle possible and desirable. Please get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of this info page or contact us directly at energymap(at)udk-berlin.de. 

Yes, the data can be downloaded directly via the EnergyMap after selecting an area or individual building via the download button as a CSV file, with all published information. In addition, a Python API for the EnergyMap will be released in the near future, allowing users to integrate data directly into their Python code.

The data from the EnergyMap Berlin is also available in the Berlin Energy Atlas published as open data. A WMS and a WFS service are available there, with which the map data can be processed automatically and integrated into other applications. If you use the data publicly, please let us know.

This key figure (“Universally unique identifier”) uniquely identifies a building in the EnergyMap for internal purposes. It has no special meaning. 

Perhaps you use more energy for heating (and therefore money) than others? On the EnergyMap homepage, you are offered the opportunity to take part in the heating check. This gives you the opportunity to compare your heating energy consumption with others. If you would like to reduce your consumption, we recommend that you use the advice options linked under “Information services”. 

Megawatt hours per year (MWh/a) is a measure of the amount of energy consumed in a house during the year. This is not the same as the boiler output. Heating energy bills often also list kilowatt hours (kWh), where 1000 kWh = 1 MWh. If you heat with oil, the rule of thumb is that 1 liter of oil corresponds to 10 kWh. 

kWh/(m2*a) is a measure of the building's heating energy consumption per square meter of floor space per year. This allows you to compare the energy consumption of large and small houses and assess how well the house is insulated compared to other buildings.