Heat map 2024 - Heat demand density per municipality

Under the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive, EU Member States were required to report national figures and plans on heat and cold by the end of June 2024. This is in line with the European Energy Union's strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. The main products are maps for the territory of Flanders with the heat demand at the level of the municipalities and the statistical sectors, maps of the existing and planned heat networks and finally also locations of potential heat supply points. The study was carried out by the Flemish Energy and Climate Agency. You can consult the accompanying report here: https://www.vlaanderen.be/building-living-and-energy/green-energy/heat map. For the update of the detailed heat demand within Flanders, the data of consumption year 2020 or 2021 are not representative, because of the corona crisis (lower mobility, lower industrial activity) and the energy crisis with a major impact on energy demand. Therefore, the global analysis was carried out again on the basis of the demand figures 2019 and the consumption data for 2022 were not retrieved from Fluvius.In order to give an indication of the evolution of the heat demand, it was chosen to calculate a ‘Flemish rescaling coefficient’. This coefficient compares the total useful heat in Flanders (which was previously described in Chapter 2) between the data years 2022 and 2019. The rescaling coefficient is 0.915. This data layer is the result of a rescaling of the 2019 municipal heat demand density map with the aforementioned rescaling coefficient, taking into account the municipal mergers that took place between 2019 and 2022.