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Monday, September 7, 2009

Mapping Vancouver Energy


The Energy Explorer is a ready of tools for exploring community unloose energy use inwards Vancouver. The site aims to encourage a vision of a to a greater extent than sustainable metropolis through the utilisation of renewable unloose energy resources. As purpose of this aim the Energy Explorer includes ii interactive maps visualizing the city's electrical current unloose energy use as well as its potential for renewable unloose energy resources.

The Home Energy Map provides a visualization of electrical current unloose energy use past times Vancouver households. Building footprints on the map are colored to exhibit their estimated unloose energy usage based on the historic menses of the edifice as well as its size. Vancouver citizens tin thus utilisation the map to come across how much unloose energy they utilisation as well as compare it to the estimated unloose energy usage of their neighbors.


The Renewable Energy Map provides a visualization of the potential of unlike types of renewable unloose energy resources inwards Metro Vancouver. The map includes layers to explore the potential for solar power, air current energy, hydro ability as well as oestrus recovery.

Each of the map layers also allows you lot to choose private districts on the map to sentiment the electrical current unloose energy involve inwards each area.