quintel / merit

A system for calculating hourly electricity and heat loads with a merit order
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P2H should become a participant #132

Closed ChaelKruip closed 8 years ago

ChaelKruip commented 8 years ago

Part of quintel/etmodel#1868

This is a conversion technology with volume (kWh) and capacity (kW) depending on the number of units of the households_flexibility_p2h_electricity node.

It converts excess electricity into heat according to the 'storage order' described in quintel/etmodel#1965 and stores the heat in a buffer. The efficiency of households_flexibility_p2h_electricity needs to be taken into account here. The heat is extracted from the buffer according to a demand profile for hot water (also see https://github.com/quintel/merit/issues/131).

The rules are:

jorisberkhout commented 8 years ago

This has been implemented and works like a charm! Closing.