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🇨🇭 Zürich

EnerGIS — Zurich's Address-Level Heating Options Map

Type a Zurich address into EnerGIS and the city returns what that specific building may heat with: whether it lies in an existing or planned thermal-network zone, whether a heat pump is feasible, how suitable its roof is for solar. Published by the city's environmental office since 2018 and rebuilt in spring 2023; the underlying municipal energy plan is released as geodata.

Live 📅 since 2018

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Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Digital twin · GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) · Open data

Sources

↗ Stadt Zürich — Energiekarte EnerGISOperator page: address query, district heating zones, heat pump and solar suitability.
↗ EnerGIS (the tool)The live public map.
↗ Nau.ch, 30 May 2023Dates first publication to 2018 and the redesign to spring 2023.
↗ Stadt Zürich — EnergieplanungThe energy plan behind the map; seven thermal-network areas.
↗ Open Data Zürich — CKAN API (data.stadt-zuerich.ch)Confirms licence: cc-zero (Creative Commons CC0) for the Energieplankarte geodata, resolving the prior licence-audit blocker; both browsable portal pages return server errors but the API is authoritative.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇨🇭 Greencity 2000-Watt District Energy System · Zürich Exactly the kind of network EnerGIS would flag: Greencity is one of the thermal-network zones the address lookup tells you about. 🇸🇪 Open District Heating: Selling Waste Heat Into the Grid · Stockholm Same domain, different mechanism: Stockholm's tool lets businesses sell excess heat, Zurich's tells addresses what they can tap into. 🇨🇭 GeniLac Lake-Water Thermal Grid · Geneva Same idea, different source: Geneva's lake-water thermal grid is the kind of network EnerGIS would surface for a qualifying address.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “EnerGIS — Zurich's Address-Level Heating Options Map” — Zürich, Switzerland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/zurich-energis-heat-map/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

The underlying data is free to reuse with attribution — see the open data page.

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