Technical implementation

The tool is designed for city-level use. Before usage, the city collects relevant data about energy consumption, vehicle mileage, and other activities, as well as emission factors. Then, the city also needs estimates about the immediate effects of the actions that are to be evaluated, for example effects on energy use intensity and renovation costs.

This dataset is uploaded to the tool, and then it will calculate the impacts based on what data was available for a particular city. The uploading process will be improved and developed during the project and more information about the process is provided in the final output deliverable.

The tool is open-source code, and it is available at Github. Two separate components are needed, frontend https://github.com/kausaltech/kausal-paths-ui and backend https://github.com/kausaltech/kausal-paths. The website contains information for installing the tool to an own computer.