Environmental challenge(s) met
Carbon and Energy Management
Smart City Strategy
Open Data Platform

Outline of project:
CAPE (Community Action Plan for Energy) was set up by Milton Keynes' Smart City initiative - MK:Smart - to collect, collate and analyse energy data from various sources to create a living Open Energy Map that will allow local communities and business to better understand energy trends in their areas.

As part of this initiative, an online oped data platform has been developed that facilitates a bottom-up approach to developing community energy initiatives with the aim of encouraging more efficient use of energy across the city, reductions in CO2 emissions and reductions in citizens’ fuel bills. By connecting citizens to a number of energy-related data sets, CAPE offers a range of analytic capabilities to citizens. These data sets provided by the platform are comprised of a mix of open and licensed urban data, including satellite and aerial imagery derived data sets (such as Solar or Ground Source Heat Pump potential), socio-economic data (such as selected census data) and energy data sets (eg: domestic electricity consumption data).

With the availability of such detailed knowledge, the possibility for accurately targeting energy-efficiency measures has become much easier for those who wish to use it.

What stage is the project at?
Research and Development

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