Published October 12, 2026 | Version v.0.2.0

Modelblocks - module European building heat: stable datasets

  • 1. ROR icon Delft University of Technology

Contributors

Data collector:

  • 1. ROR icon Delft University of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon University of Cambridge
  • 3. ROR icon Arup Group (United Kingdom)

Description

A collection of openly available datasets used in the Modelblocks - European building heat module.
Saved to this repository to enable reproducibility and data stability. This record also contains precomputed building-count and structural heat-weight rasters generated using the module’s baseline configuration.

Details on each file below.

File Long name Data year License Links
heat_pump_characteristics.nc

Heatpump technology characteristics from the Sector Coupled Euro-Calliope model.

Scraped from WAMAK datasheets.  Includes COP, electricity input requirements, and heating capacity for 37 air source and 40 ground source heat pump products.

2020 CC-BY-4.0

Source code

Model results

    
estat_nrg_bal_c.tsv.gz
Eurostat: complete energy balance 1990-2024 CC-BY-4.0 Link
cens_21dwbnr_r3.tsv.gz Eurostat: Dwellings by type of building, number of rooms or useful floor space and NUTS 3 region 2021 CC-BY-4.0 Link
cens_21dwop_r3.tsv.gz Eurostat: Conventional dwellings by occupancy status, type of building and NUTS 3 region 2021 CC-BY-4.0 Link
    
CHE_energy_balance.xlsx
Switzerland: overall energy balances 1970-2024 CC-BY-4.0 Link
    
CHE_energy_consumption_households.xlsx
Switzerland: ex-post analysis of Swiss energy consumption according to use 2018-2024 CC-BY-4.0 Link
    
CHE_energy_consumption_industry.xlsx
Switzerland: Energy consumption statistics in industry and services 2013-2024 CC-BY-4.0 Link

GBR_End_Use_tables.zip

United Kingdom: Energy Consumption in the UK (ECUK). 2020-2025 Open Government Licence v3.0 Link

nuts3.geojson

Geojson with nuts3 regions.  2021 GISCO specific terms: non-commercial use; attribution required.  Link
residential_space_heat_weight.tif Raster to disaggregate heat demand for the residential sector. Developed with the module. - See text below -

commercial_space_heat_weight.tif

Raster to disaggregate heat demand for the commercial sector. Developed with the module. - See text below -

building_count.tif

Raster with building counts.  - See text below -

The building-count and heat-weight rasters derive from EUBUCCO v0.2 (ODbL 1.0, with CC BY-SA 2.0 for Prague and CC BY-NC 2.0 for Abruzzo), Microsoft Global ML Building Footprints (CDLA Permissive 2.0), GHSL population data and Eurostat census statistics (CC-BY-4.0), and GISCO/NUTS boundaries (GISCO specific terms: non-commercial use; attribution required). Upstream rights and applicable conditions remain in force; no single licence is asserted to replace them. Source versions and processing methods are documented in the accompanying workflow.

© EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries.

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Additional details

Related works

Continues
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.5774988 (DOI)
Is supplemented by
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.10965294 (DOI)

Dates

Created
2026

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/modelblocks-org/module_euro_building_heat
Programming language
Python , Snakemake
Development Status
Active

References