Dutch municipal policy documents outlining visions and solution directions for achieving a natural gas-free heat supply. The dataset combines tabular data from a 2022 database with municipal and planning area geometries. It was published by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties under a CC0-1.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze municipal heat transition strategies based on the described policy visions.
- Map planning areas for gas-free heat supply based on the included geometries.
- Compare solution directions across municipalities using the tabular database content.
- Support regional energy infrastructure planning based on combined municipal data.
Strengths
- Combines policy document data with spatial geometries for integrated analysis.
- Covers all Dutch municipalities, as they were required to have these documents by the end of 2021.
- Available under a permissive CC0-1.0 public domain license.
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
- Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties
- Collection Method
- Compiled from municipal Transition Vision Heat (TVW) policy documents submitted to a central database.
- Time Range
- Data reflects the 2022 database version; documents were required by end of 2021.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Municipalities in the Netherlands.