Over 70% of German households are supplied with heat through fossil fuels (natural gas, oil). Therefore, some federal states have legally regulated Municipal Heat Planning (MHP). Additionally, a federal law on heat planning came into effect on January 1, 2024. Municipalities will thus designate suitable areas for decarbonized heating networks or heat pumps. Spatial AI aims to automate this spatial delineation, in-corporating, among other things, the climate protection strategies of housing companies (HC). This will relieve municipalities and make heat plans comparable.

In the automated fine-scale division of munici-palities, the spatial levels described in the federal law, such as building blocks and street sections, as well as natural boundaries like rivers, should be considered. Furthermore, local climate protection strategies will be included, in particular neighborhood planning and building characteristics of HCs. The results are intended to feed into the MHP but also be usable in the neighborhood planning of HCs.