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Table 1 Data used for modeling heat demand

From: Bioenergy plants’ potential for contributing to heat generation in Germany

Name

Content

Source

Update

IZES heat demand

Heat demand in GWhth/a on a municipal level for the residential, TCS, and industrial sectors

IZES gGmbH, Wuppertal Institut, Fraunhofer UMSICHT [20]

2011

DBFZ BEP database

Locations and technical information on bioenergy plants in Germany, containing approx. 14,000 individual plants

DBFZ

2016

ATKIS basis DLM

Digital landscape model (scale 1:25,000) with spatial and content-related information on land use in vector data format

©GeoBasis-DE/BKG [19]

2012

Administrative areas

Administrative areas of Germany (NUTS 0-3, LAU 1-2) including population figures

©GeoBasis-DE/BKG [21]

2016

Geographical grid

Geographical grid of Germany with a raster cell size of 100 m × 100 m

©GeoBasis-DE/BKG [22]

2018

POI-Bund

Locations and additional information on schools and hospitals

©GeoBasis-DE/BKG [23]

2018

OSM buildings

OpenStreetMap buildings dataset

Geofabrik GmbH, OpenStreetMap, and contributors [24]

2018

Census 2011

Small-scale (raster cells, 100 m × 100 m) population statistics for Germany

Destatis (Federal Statistical Office) [25]

2015