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pik-piam / edgebuildings

Simulation model to project the global energy demand in the buildings sector
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No district heating in hot regions #7

Open robinhasse opened 1 week ago

robinhasse commented 1 week ago

We should avoid that regions with very low HDD values expand district heating grids.

robinhasse commented 1 week ago

Here, I plot the average DH share over the average HDD values between 2015-2020 for all EDGE-B regions. grafik As a binary criterion, we could say that regions with HDD below 500 cannot expand FE shares. Ricarda had a good suggestion: We could fit an S-curve. This should have an inflection point very close to our SSP2 target share. To have more region heterogeneity, we could scale this target according to the S-curve if we decide to invest more into this issue.

robinhasse commented 1 week ago

Actually, looking at this again, I would pick HDD of 1000 as a binary criterion. Only some outliers have DH in this regime and these are precisely the affected regions, @ricardarosemann .