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Creating heat and power demand profiles from annual values.
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Unclear understanding of the file shlp_hours_factors.csv #56

Closed AlexJew closed 8 months ago

AlexJew commented 8 months ago

Hello everyone,

My name is Alexandre Jewell, and I work at a company focused on energy planning. We are currently working on the use of the BDEW hourly profiles for estimating the potential electricity flows within an energy community. To do so, I was thinking of using the standard load profiles from the BDEW, and I've got to thank you for how you structured them and made them so much clearer in your file shlp_hours_factors.csv contained within the folder bdew_data

However, after reading the documentation, I wasn't able to get a complete understanding of the structure of it. Here are my questions:

  1. What is the difference between the column building_class and the column shlp_type ?
  2. To which temperatures do the intervals temp_intervall_01, temp_intervall_02, etc. correspond to ?
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Thank you very much for the help and the overall effort you've been putting into open source code so far !

Kind regards,

Alex

p-snft commented 8 months ago

Hi @AlexJew, thanks for asking. The first thing is rather easy to explain: the building_class (Baualtersklasse) expresses the age of the building (cf. https://demandlib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bdew.html#heat-profiles). To my knowledge, the latter is also due to considering intervals, but this time for the temperature. But honestly, I am not an expert for this specific aspect.

AlexJew commented 8 months ago

Hello, thank you very much for the reply. I believed that I was actually confused by the difference between the selp and the shlp series. It should be good now. I'll close the thread, and reopen it only in case I have some new questions :)