Municipal Heat Demand Profiles for the Province of South Holland

Heat profiles developed by the WarmteTransitieMakers for the Province of South Holland visualize future heat demand for municipalities. The tool clusters buildings into high, medium, or low-temperature categories based on insulation and heating systems to estimate the required heat profile for 2050. The dataset is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.

Use Cases

• Estimating future municipal heat demand based on building insulation and heating system characteristics.
• Clustering residential and commercial buildings into temperature categories for targeted infrastructure planning.
• Creating visual heatmaps to identify areas requiring high, medium, or low-temperature heat supply solutions.
• Informing the development of municipal transition visions for sustainable heating.

Strengths

• Data is developed for a specific, actionable purpose: aiding municipal heat transition planning.
• Provides a defined clustering methodology based on temperature thresholds (HT >70°C, LT <55°C, MT 55-70°C).
• Includes multiple accessible file formats (HTML, WMS, WFS, PNG, JSON) for different use cases.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

WarmteTransitieMakers on behalf of the Province of South Holland.

Collection Method

Likely derived from building property data to estimate heat demand and required temperature levels.

Time Range

Projected demand for the year 2050.

Freshness

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Geography

Municipalities, likely within the Province of South Holland, Netherlands.