Visualising city energy policies
I've just finished an interesting project on urban sustainability, showing how different greenhouse gas reduction policies in cities around Europe and China could affect health and wellbeing. I was working for the URGENCHE project (Urban Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China and Europe), funded by the EU under FP7. As part of the project, I wanted to draw some Sankey diagrams to show the different energy flows in the cities. The academics in Stuttgart had already drawn a very detailed Sankey diagram using eSankey! Which was a great starting point for me. Also, of course, all the technical data collection had been done, and they provided me with all the raw numbers in Excel format. I wanted to make the diagram a bit clearer though. It needed to be quicker to understand so that policy-makers in the city could see at a glance what the different scenarios and cities would be like. Also, the text needed to be legible on a powepoint slide or an A4 report page.