Stat Chat: New Dashboard for Community Level Energy Data and Mapping
SEAI’s Energy Statistics GIS team has just published a new online interactive dashboard to provide brand-new and never-seen-before data at the Community Level.
Helping communities create an 'Energy Master Plan'
SEAI’s new interactive dashboard helps communities create new ‘Energy Master Plans’ (EMPs) as part of their Sustainable Energy Community journey, by providing ‘small area level’ breakdown of energy data to community mentors and their contractors. The Dashboard helps users more easily visualise and interact with their energy data, and to export data related to their community.
Ireland’s ‘small areas’ are defined by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) and are used to divide Ireland up into about 19,000 uniquely identified neighbourhoods, each with approximately 100 households. Small areas are generally the most granular level of data published by public bodies – they provide a relatively high degree of spatial resolution but include data from enough different households so that no one household’s data can be deduced – the statistical sweet spot of high-detail with high-confidentiality.
The new SEC-EMP dashboard builds and deepens SEAI’s existing mapping resources, which have previously focused mainly on national level and Local Authority level. The new SEC-EMP dashboard is some of the most granular spatial information ever released within SEAI, and will help communities, and their mentors, make evidence-based decisions, and track their progress, as they develop as Sustainable Energy Communities.
-
The Dashboard helps users more easily visualise and interact with their energy data, and to export data related to their community.
SEC Energy Master Plan Dashboard
SEAI’s Energy Statistics GIS team has just published a new online interactive dashboard to provide brand-new and never-seen-before data at the Community Level.
SEC Energy Master Plan DashboardThe data views/pages have interactive tools such as a filter tool and export tool.
- The filter tool allows users to filter charts, tables and maps to a Sustainable Energy Community.
- The export function allows users to download data as a printable map for reports, as a csv table or as a JSON.
- The "Start a new EMP page" includes National Small Area Data. This function allows users to select multiple Small Areas and export this into a csv table.
We hope that this new Dashboard from SEAI will become a valuable resource for the Sustainable Energy Communities in starting new Energy Master Plans and providing key spatial information to help Mentors and Contractors in their own decision making.
Learn how to interact with the new SEC-EMP Dashboard in the video below:
