Where demand on the grid is growing

What it does

Every month: buildings, malls, hotels and hospitals that opened in the last year, every part of the city searched, each once, the people around them, fuel and charging nearby, a load index, sorted by kind, a network note, saved to Google Drive, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Cairo, find apartment buildings, shopping malls and 2 more in the area, remove duplicates, count who lives around, count the gas stations and electric vehicle charging stations within 2 km of each, work out new fields, clean up their categories, write a report with xMap AI, then create file from text in Google Drive, email the list to you and show them on a map.

Why it is useful

New malls, hotels and towers add load before the planning data catches up. Seeing them as they open shows where to reinforce first.

Who it is for

Energy, EV & utilities. Fuel retailers, EV charging networks, solar companies and utilities planning sites and serving customers. Every use case for energy & ev

Best use cases

• A distribution utility's planning team
• A district cooling provider
• A city energy office

What each run gives you

• A network note
• Data in Google Drive
• A map

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 360 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 6 hours a month (an estimate). It is advanced: 12 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. New large sitesxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
4. Each site onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
5. Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
6. Fuel and charging nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
7. Load indexLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
8. Kind of loadxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
9. Write the network notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
10. Save the data to Google DriveApp · Google DriveCloud storage and file backup
11. Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
12. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

Use it now

Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.