Mapping the local heat transition
summary
A reproducible pipeline maps the most suitable low‑carbon heating per property and agglomerates them into neighbourhood Local Heat Planning Tool opportunity clusters; it uses OS Open UPRN, OS OpenMap Local, EPC and a Plymouth council tax pilot for validation, trains a blocks‑of‑flats classifier (random forest), estimates garden area from land parcels, applies Voronoi clustering with physical barriers, and serves results via a web UI (Google Maps API, Vue, Rails) backed on AWS. Alpha testing with four local authorities is live and scaling to GB is underway, but models need retraining and production hardening.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Local heat transition project
- 1:06Nesta's carbon mission
- 4:11Reducing household carbon
- 5:39Clean heat neighborhoods
- 8:29Identifying properties from data
- 10:56Assigning low-carbon heat tech
- 13:06Blocks of flats classifier
- 15:12Estimating outdoor space
- 17:19Aggregating property solutions
- 19:30Clustering buildings
- 21:58Refining clusters with barriers
- 23:03Mapping tool tech stack
- 24:35Local heat planning tool
- 28:31Future tool scaling
- 31:19Team and acknowledgments
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