TerriSTORY®

TerriSTORY® is a partnership tool to help manage the transition of territories, co-constructed with local territories. Providing an interactive visualisation interface for multi-thematic open-data (energy, climate, mobility, economy, etc.), TerriSTORY® makes it easier to understand a territory, identify its assets and priority levers for actions.

The tool enables to simulate prospective scenarios and measure their socioeconomic and environmental impacts, in order to build a territorial trajectory that meets the challenges and objectives at hand.

Conceived as an educational tool, it enables multi-stakeholder dialogue within and between territories. TerriSTORY® tool, "made in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes", is present in 6 French regions and is becoming a reference tool national level, as well as a support for energy observatory for the whole EUSALP region (through CERVINO project).

The project brings together some twenty national and regional players with a public service or general interest.

 Watch a video summarising the way the platform works for non-technical users here.

 More precisely, TerriSTORY® is a web application that is divided into five different modules:

• A geographical data visualization map that allows to present many indicators using different geographical levels (such as regional or city level) and to have access to distribution of values in various categories depending on the indicator (e.g., energy consumption by residential sector and by natural gas vector for heating);
• On the same map, it is possible to add layers of facilities or power plants (or any relevant geographical data). These amenities can be associated with details on their specifications (e.g., electric vehicles charging points or methanization plants);
• A dashboard tool that allows to create custom dashboards gathering indicators through different graphical modes, maps and texts to have an easy-to-present page ready to be used on any territory;
• A limited number of static pages to help following historical trajectories for energy consumption, production, air pollutants emissions, and also to show Sankey diagrams (concerning energy flows for example);
• A more complex module enabling the user to create and study its own territorial strategy for energy, emissions and air quality by selecting among multiple actions and future targets.

One of the strengths of the TerriSTORY application is that it is governed by a consortium of various actors. For each region, an institution is responsible for providing and maintaining regional datasets, creating a regional community, and sharing best practices and limitations around the platform. Those regional administrators have access to a rich administration panel that enables them to perform many operations on both the data, indicators and geographical elements creating the richness of the application, but also on the structure of a large part of the tool (zoom levels available, navigation through the indicators, Sankeys diagrams, etc.).

Frequent meetings are organised between the consortium actors to discuss technical development, communication around TerriSTORY®, or strategic decisions. Many public events, either online or offline, are also regularly proposed freely to any user interested (either energy professional, city technician, elected person or even passionate citizen).

The tool-related pages and documents are mostly in French as it is and remains a French initiative. The various European projects in progress will hopefully give us the opportunity to translate some of these in English or other languages.