Model for the projection of global energy demand in the buildings sector

R package edgebuildings, version 0.4.8

Purpose and Functionality

The Energy Demand GEnerator projects energy demand for buildings both at the useful and final energy level. It covers the global demand and five energy services: space heating, space cooling, appliances and lighting (treated together) water heating and cooking. In a nutshell, it computes the useful energy intensity of each service in different regions, taking into account climate conditions as well as floor space demand. It then projects energy demand based on the assumption that, as developing countries grow economically, they will catch up with the energy service demand of developed countries. Further assumptions are made for the level beyond the current level of economic development (saturation or lower growth).

Installation

For installation of the most recent package version an additional repository has to be added in R:

r options(repos = c(CRAN = "@CRAN@", pik = "https://rse.pik-potsdam.de/r/packages")) The additional repository can be made available permanently by adding the line above to a file called .Rprofile stored in the home folder of your system (Sys.glob("~") in R returns the home directory).

After that the most recent version of the package can be installed using install.packages:

r install.packages("edgebuildings")

Package updates can be installed using update.packages (make sure that the additional repository has been added before running that command):

r update.packages()

Tutorial

The package comes with a vignette describing the basic functionality of the package and how to use it. You can load it with the following command (the package needs to be installed):

r vignette("edgebuildings") # EDGE Buildings

Questions / Problems

In case of questions / problems please contact Robin Hasse robin.hasse@pik-potsdam.de.

Citation

To cite package edgebuildings in publications use:

Levesque A, Hasse R, Tockhorn H, Rosemann R, Führlich P (2025). "edgebuildings: Model for the projection of global energy demand in the buildings sector - Version 0.4.8."

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

latex @Misc{, title = {edgebuildings: Model for the projection of global energy demand in the buildings sector - Version 0.4.8}, author = {Antoine Levesque and Robin Hasse and Hagen Tockhorn and Ricarda Rosemann and Pascal Führlich}, date = {2025-05-26}, year = {2025}, }