Overview

The Footprint reductor enables Mendix developers to get the data for the Dutch National Energy Dashboard (NED) with a plug-and-play module.

The module contains logic to retrieve the data from the NED and to find the optimum for electricity emissionfactor, solar and wind energy production.

The optimum (lowest emission or highest renewable energy production) can easily be determined for a set interval within an optional period of interest.

The emissionfactor is available for the Netherlands only whereas solar and wind energy can be used on the national or provincial level (as provided by the NED).

The data scope, temporal resolution and preferred region of interest can easily be modified by changing a constant.

Documentation

Typical usage scenario

This module can be used to optimize the electricity consumption to reduce the CO₂ emissions or to maximize direct renewable energy consumption.

Features and limitations

The Footprint Reductor is a lightweight plug-and-play module which only needs an API-token to provide access to the NED. The temporal resolution, default region of interest (province or nationwide), retention time (caching) and data scope can be altered by modifying the appropriate constants.

The energy types (land-based wind or solar energy) as wel as the region of interest can be selected and changed at runtime.

The Footprint Reductor provides the opportunity to find the the interval having maximum energy production (land-based wind or solar energy) or the minimum CO₂ emission withing a given time period.

Installation

The module comes with two snippets which provides drag-and-drop UI components to use all functionality provided by this module.

Similar information can be obtained by creating your own microflow using the following 4 steps

1. Use the appropriate FootprintReductior-create microflow
2. Modify process duration, mimimum timepoint, maximum timepoint, region of interest and energy type as desired.
3. Retrieve the energy data from the NED
4. Obtain the consumption optimum (minimum emission or maximum renewable energy production).

Configuration

The token provided by the NED has to be inserted into the appropriate constant.

The default configuration can be modified by changing the configuration constants (optional).