Input Files for Synthetic Low-Voltage Distribution Grid Generation using GridCreator

This dataset contains the necessary input files to create synthetic yet realistic low-voltage distribution grids for German grid areas using the open-source GridCreator Toolbox (INATECH-CIG/GridCreator: Automatically generate distribution networks based on open data).

It contains

• grids: grid data for grid districts; Amme, J., Dubielzig, P., & Schachler, B. (2023). Distribution grid data generated by ding0 (v0.3.0-alpha) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10405129
• weather_2013: weather data from Climate data store: Era5 hourly data on single levels from 1940 to present; https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=download
• zensus_daten: Zensus 2022 Data; © Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), 2025; https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Zensus2022/_inhalt.html#
• FZ Pkw mit Elektroantrieb Zulassungsbezirk_-8414538009745447927.geojson: Kraftfahrtbundesamt - Statistikportal: © Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt, Flensburg; https://das-kba-statistikportal.hub.arcgis.com/
• georef-germany-postleitzahlen.geojson: Postleitzahlen Deutschland; from https://www.govdata.de/suche/daten/deutschland-postleitzahlen under „Datenlizenz Deutschland – Namensnennung – Version 2.0" (https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/by-2-0)
• mastr_values_per_plz.csv: Data originating from Marktstammdatenregister: ©2025 Bundesnetzagentur für Elektrizität, Gas, Telekommunikation, Post und Eisenbahnen; https://www.marktstammdatenregister.de/ that was postprocessed for this use case.
• Bev_data_ecar.csv: Dataset containing the number of electric vehicles per Zulassungsbezirk, combined with socio-economic data from zensus
• Bev_data_hp.csv: Dataset containing the number of heat pumps per state, combined with socio-economic data from zensus
• Bev_data_solar.csv: Dataset containing the number of PV systems per Postleitzahl, combined with socio-economic data from zensus
• Bev_data_Technik.csv: Dataset containing the number of PV systems, heat pumps and electric vehicles per state
• Faktoren.csv: Dataset containing the results of correlating data on PV, heat pumps and electric vehicles with socio-economic zensus features.