City Energy Analyst helps you to analyse the effects of building retrofits, land-use planning, district heating and cooling and renewable energy on the future costs, emissions and energy consumption of neighbourhoods and districts.
City Energy Analyst (CEA) is an open-source software for the analysis of energy systems in cities. CEA helps you to analyse the effects of building retrofits, land-use planning, district heating and cooling and renewable energy on the future costs, emissions and energy consumption of neighbourhoods and districts. In Addition CEA helps you to find the optimal location, size and operation of energy generation and distribution technologies for a neighbourhood or a district of your choice. For the moment, CEA supports neighbourhoods and districts in Temperate (e.g., Switzerland) and Tropical climates (e.g., Singapore).
Born in 2013 at ETH Zurich, the open-source CEA has enabled architects, urban designers and engineers worldwide to perform building energy simulations and conduct research on multiple scales from neighbourhoods to cities.
CEA engages a multi-interface strategy for modellers of various UBEM proficiencies. Our user-friendly CEA Dashboard could be easily picked up by users with no programming capacities. Researchers and software developers are advised to use the CEA Console/Command Line. Currently, the CEA Team is exploring the possibilities of introducing CEA on Web. Meanwhile, CEA’s connection to Rhino/Grasshopper will be reintroduced shortly.
