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Citiwatts: a secure, open-source platform for regional energy planning

Pena Bello, Alejandro  
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Jeannin, Noémie  
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Wyrsch, Nicolas  
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October 2025
IET Conference Proceedings

The citiwatts platform, an open-source toolbox developed during the European projects Hotmaps and OpenGIS for Energy Transition (OpenGIS4ET), supports energy planning amid the energy transition by integrating diverse energy systems and enabling flexible, data-driven analyses. citiwatts combines open-source and user-uploaded private data with privacy and security measures, enhancing planning precision. Its calculation modules (CMs) model complex energy scenarios like coupling electric vehicle (EV) recharge with photovoltaics (PV), allowing users to assess strategies such as EV charging coordinated with local PV generation. A case study in Sion, Switzerland, demonstrates how the platform can be used to compare the existing EV charging infrastructure with the recharging requirements to the horizon 2050. The secure, GDPR-compliant platform enables stakeholders, like local Distribution System Operators (DSOs), to integrate proprietary data and analyse energy demands at various scales. citiwatts emerges as a valuable tool for sustainable energy planning, offering policymakers and planners an adaptable solution aligned with CO2 reduction goals.

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research article
DOI
10.1049/icp.2025.1987
Author(s)
Pena Bello, Alejandro  

EPFL

Jeannin, Noémie  

EPFL

Wyrsch, Nicolas  

EPFL

Wannier, David

HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Rager, Jakob

HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland

Date Issued

2025-10

Publisher

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

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IET Conference Proceedings
Volume

2025

Issue

14

Start page

2016

End page

2020

Subjects

Energy planning

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DevSecOps

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regional energy transition

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open-data

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October 16, 2025
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