Under the Energy Efficiency Directive and the Renewable Energy Directive, EU Member States were required to report national heat and cold figures and plans by the end of June 2024. This is in line with the European Energy Union's strategy to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The main products are maps for the territory of Flanders showing the heat demand at the level of the municipalities and the statistical sectors, maps of the existing and planned heat networks and finally also locations of potential heat supply points. The study was carried out by the Flemish Energy and Climate Agency. You can consult the accompanying report here: https://www.vlaanderen.be/building-living-and-energy/green energy/heat map. The heat demand density per municipality expresses the total heat demand per municipality in relation to the length of the paved roads as defined in the Flemish Road Register. The heat demand per municipality was achieved by combining the exact heat demand of all small consumers with the exact heat demand of the large consumers connected to the Fluvius network, and this for the residential and tertiary sector, supplemented by the heat demand as reported by the EBO companies. For large consumers and EBO companies, the heat demand was estimated on the basis of the known range. The heat demand was calculated on the basis of Fluvius gas and electricity consumption data, the EBO reporting and additional estimates of the average biomass and fuel oil consumption from the Energy Balance. In addition, for consumers connected to the Fluvius network, this map layer also contains municipal figures on electricity consumption, gas consumption, the number of EANs for electricity and gas and detailed breakdowns for both large and small consumers. For more background information, please refer to the report of the Heat Map. This layer replaces the layer er:er_wrmtk_wvrg_gem_2024, which was made as an interpolation due to the lack of usable source data Iv. the original reporting for the Heat Map 2024.