EEquityMap – an interactive, Germany-wide online map for the equitable distribution of renewable energy
Project description
In the EEquityMap project, scientists from the Reiner Lemoine Institute and the Oeko-Institut are developing an interactive, Germany-wide online map that shows how wind energy and open-field photovoltaic systems can be distributed from different justice perspectives. The aim of the map is to identify areas of consensus and conflict and to support politics, planning and society in making fair decisions for the expansion of renewable energies.
Aspects of justice in the expansion of renewable energies
The expansion of renewable energies includes the question of fair location decisions. As part of the RLI project EmPowerPlan, the project team has already carried out the distribution of wind and photovoltaic plants using various justice logics. In the EEquityMap project, the researchers will include additional criteria and translate them into quantifiable metrics in order to be able to take into account further perspectives of distributive justice.
Development of an interactive online map
The publicly accessible EEquityMap allows users to set different total outputs for wind energy and open-field photovoltaic systems and to combine various equity criteria, such as load proximity, gross value added and potential-based. The tool calculates areas that are suitable for expansion and where different notions of justice agree or conflict. In addition, the scientists compare existing and planned plants using the metrics to show which ideas the past and current planning is most likely to follow.
Both code and data are published open source to enable traceability, reproducibility and further development by the community.
Project period: April 2026 – June 2027
The project is funded by EnergieVision e.V.
Tasks
- Development of an interactive, Germany-wide online map for the distribution of wind energy and open-field photovoltaic systems
- Further development and quantification of various equity metrics for the expansion of renewable energies
- Analysis of consensus and conflict areas
- Implementation of workshops
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