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, market and affordable housing and if they have solar panels or not. The targets are on neighborhood level and are adjustable, this makes the indicator scalable and suitable for different types of projects. For each housing category a different target (percentage) for the amount of houses in the category that should have solar panels can be set. For example, a percantage of 50% for all top market housing can be set, which means that at least half of the houses in the top market sector should have solar panels, to reach the goal.

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

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 top market, market and affordable housing are being taken into account.

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. The score is calculated by looking per neighborhood per housing category to what extent the set targets are met. These scores are averaged for all neighborhoods and averaged to one final percentage, which is the final score.

Additional configurations

For this indicator to function, three globals to set the targets have to be defined. Read below for the steps.

Add the Globals

The targets for the amount of houses that should have solar panels for the three different housing categories are set in three different globals. 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 TARGET_TOPMARKET_SOLARPANELS
5. Change the start value to a number representing your solar panel target.
6. Repeat steps 2 to 5 for the targets TARGET_MARKET_SOLARPANELS and TARGET_AFFORDABLE_SOLARPANELS and fill in their values
7. 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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