Solar panels (Indicator)

General

What is the Solar panels indicator?

The Solar panels indicator calculates the number of houses with solar panels in the current and maquette situation and relates this to the set targets. The indicator looks at several types of houses, top market, top market, market and affordable housing and if they have solar panels or not.

This indicator is useful for projects where for example:

• (one of the) goals is to work on reaching a certain renewable energy target
• different spatial plans are compared in the 3D world
• the project area should become climate adaptive

The targets are on neighborhood level and are adjustable, this makes the indicator scalable and suitable for different types of projects.

Indicator panel

The indicator panel shows per neighborhood:

• the neighborhood name
• the percentage of houses with solar panels in the top market sector
• the percentage of houses with solar panels in the market sector
• the percentage of houses with solar panels in the affordable sector

Calculation

The indicator calculates the difference in houses between the planned and original state of the project. Houses in the Tygron Platform are called Units. A building block is not necessarily one unit. You can see the number of units when clicking on a building in the 3D world. Only units of the type normal, social and luxe are being taken into account. The total target can be adjusted. An additional target of 30% social housing is deducted from this total target.

Score

The score is represented in a progress bar, with a scale from 0 to 100%. Determine if you want to calculate the absolute or relative score.

Additional configurations

For this indicator to function, an extra attribute has to be added to the Neighborhood in where the houses will be build and a new Global has to be defined to set the total housing target. Read below for the steps.

Add the Attribute

The indicator looks only at the number of units in a certain Neighborhood. This neighborhood is marked with the attribute PLAN_AREA with a value > 0, for the indicator to know which neighborhood to look at. Therefore, an attribute has to be added to the neighborhood in where you want to build houses.

Solar panels (Indicator):

1. Select Geo data and then Neighborhoods in the ribbon header
2. Select the Neighborhood where you want to build in the left panel
3. In the right panel, go to the tab Attributes.
4. Scroll down to the bottom and enter the Attribute name PLAN_AREA with value "1".
5. Click on Save new attribute. The attribute is now added to the the other attributes.

Add the Global

The total housing target is set in a Global. To learn more about what a global is, please go to the Globals page.

Solar panels (Indicator):

1. Select Indicators and then Globals in the ribbon header
2. Click on the add button in the bottom left corner. A new global named VARIABLE will be added to the left panel.
3. Select the global VARIABLE.
4. In the right panel, change the name to HOUSING_GOAL.
5. Change the start value to a number representing your total housing target.
6. Click on the tab Indicators and the button Indicators and choose for Reset to Start values (faster) to update your project.

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