Building the future city Glasgow

Development and application of an urban solar photovoltaic opportunity mapping tool

“…The GOMap tool was designed in collaboration with such bodies and its development will now be discussed in the next section. The Future City Demonstrator Project [ 31 ], funded by Innovate UK, was a significant initiative in the development of future cities and commissioned the Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) to develop a new evaluation method encapsulated in a GIS tool that captured and analysed policy aspects from a local planning authority, and technical aspects from a local utility provider in spatial format. The research project resulted in the creation of GOMap, a Geospatial Opportunity Mapping tool [ 32 ], built on top of the open-source QGIS framework [ 33 ].…”