Table of Contents
Abstract 4
Acknowledgement 5
1. Introduction 8
1.1. Urban Energy Modelling (UEM) 8
1.2. Global coverage of Urban Energy Modelling (UEM) 9
1.3. Indian Context – Relevance of Bottom up Urban Energy Modelling 10
1.4. Research Objective 11
1.5. Research question 11
1.6. Research scope 11
2. Literature review 12
2.1 Review of bottom up Urban Energy Modelling concepts 12
2.2. Use case of the UEM 12
2.3. Simulation Methodology & Tools 13
2.4. Data for developing UEM 13
2.5. Data availability in the Indian context 14
2.6. Model Accuracy, calibration & validation 14
2.7. Challenges in the field of UEM 15
2.8. Research Gap Identified 15
2.9. Probable solution - The intermediate Levels of Detail (LoD) 16
3. Research Methodology 17
3.1. Defining the model characteristics and the different methodologies 17
3.2. The intermediate Levels of Detail (LoD) 21
3.3. Developing the UEM 23
4. Results - Case study of Ahmedabad, Gujrat 25
4.1. Public Datasets in Ahmedabad 25
4.2. Comparison of Different LoDs through simulations 26
4.3. Simulation iterations / combinations of different LoDs 27
4.4. Simulation observations 28
4.5. Kolmogrov-smirnov test for EUI (kwh/m2) distribution 29
5. Conclusions 30
References 32
5. Appendix 35
5.2. Appendix 1 - Structure of Literature review 37
5.3. Appendix 2 – Classification of existing UEM projects 38
5.4. Appendix 3 – Calibration Data 39
5.5. Archetypes developed for Ahmedabad based on GDCR 39
5.6. Survey Methodology for data collection 41