Local Energy Asset Representation (LEAR)
Energy Systems Catapult (ESC)
- Licence
- Commercial or restricted
- Cost
- Paid or bespoke
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Manual download
What it contains
Bespoke consultancy modelling product that assembles a place's energy assets: building stock and type, heating system inventory, annual and peak energy demand, solar PV potential, EV charge feasibility, network capacity and embedded generation, plus employment/deprivation context.
When you need it
Not yet mapped to a project stage. The stage axis is a first pass against a draft matrix, and a record with no stage means nobody has placed it rather than that it is useful at none.
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Commissioned areas only - delivered for York & North Yorkshire, Edinburgh & South East Scotland City Region, Bristol, Southend, Lincolnshire and others
- Nations
- Scotland
- Resolution
- Building to LSOA depending on commission
- Formats
- PDF reports + underlying GIS/tabular delivered to client
- Update cadence
- Per commission (irregular)
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- MIXED - bespoke to client; a subset of LEAR *reports* are openly catalogued on Open Net Zero
- Assertion source
- as published by Energy Systems Catapult (ESC)
- Protocol
- HTML catalogue
- Endpoint
- https://opennetzero.org/energy-systems-catapult
- Harvest note
- yes-manual Link check 2026-09-08: previous landing page was wrong-page (https://es.catapult.org.uk/tools-and-labs/our-place-net-zero-toolkit/local-energy-asset-representation/); corrected to the current URL.
Caveats
VERIFIED REAL, not stale - but it is a service, not a published dataset. Only a handful of client areas have any public LEAR artefact, and those are reports rather than machine-readable layers.
Classification
- Category
- Unassigned
- Assigned by
- Not yet determined
- Depth domain
- Surface
- Data form
- Document
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- local-energy-asset-representation-lear
Open at Energy Systems Catapult
Commercial or restricted terms apply.
Resolved
A server answered on 2026-09-08 and returned the expected page.
Checked by automated request, not in a browser. A site can answer a script and still fail for a reader, so treat this as a weak signal.
Machine endpoint (PDF reports + underlying…)
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