IREES in Berlin Heat transition in the neighborhood

🔥 Heat transition in the neighborhood – we provide the load profiles
We presented a poster at the annual meeting of the Energy System Analysis research network in Berlin – and showed how future, location- and building-specific load profiles for heating, cooling, electricity and hot water can be created.

As part of the LOCAL research project, we are developing a database with over 20,000 hourly-resolved load profiles that can be used specifically for energy system optimization at neighbourhood level. To do this, we vary the most important influencing factors and supplement the profiles for 293 residential and 32 non-residential building types in 15 climate regions in Germany with random user profiles and varying numbers of residents. In this way, we avoid unrealistic simultaneity effects, especially for electricity or hot water demand.

🔁 We link the profiles with the agent-based building model Invert/EE-Lab and scale them along the scenarios of the projection report up to 2050. The probabilities of different renovation depths control the future cooling and heating load.

📊 In the coming months, we will make the data available to the modeling community on the Open Energy Platform.

📬 Interested in the results or a collaboration? Simply get in touch: info@irees.de

📍 Many thanks to the research network for two inspiring days full of exciting workshops and opportunities to exchange ideas!