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Macro DE - Executive Summary - DE2002 / WP2.0: Development of a methodology to calculate energy demand


Citation ETI Macro DE - Executive Summary - DE2002 / WP2.0: Development of a methodology to calculate energy demand, ETI, 2013. https://doi.org/10.5286/UKERC.EDC.000281.
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Author(s) ETI
Project partner(s) ETI
Publisher ETI
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/UKERC.EDC.000281
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Abstract The objective of the Distributed Energy (DE) Programme is to increase the uptake of DE through the development of integrated systems in order to reduce through-life costs, improve ease of installation and increase efficiency in the combined generation of heat and electricity. Within this programme framework the objective of the Macro DE FRP will develop and validate a software methodology to enable the design of optimised DE solutions where clusters of demand sites are linked with appropriate DE supply equipment. The project will quantify the opportunity for Macro level DE (up to 50MW) in the UK and the potential to accelerate the development of appropriate technology by 2020 for the purposes of significant implementation by 2030

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Having developed and validated a method for forecasting energy demand, the next steps within this particular work package are
  1. To develop an approach for creating around 20 UK “Characteristic Zones” to calculate aggregated zonal demand.
  2. Develop an approach for assessing large UK waste heat emitters
In addition with a separate work package (WP4) the consortium will develop a design/optimisation methodology to aggregate zonal energy demand data and design/optimise zonal DE centre’s using the temporal demand profiles from this deliverable together with a library of DE technology/equipment (WP3). This design/optimisation methodology will be embedded in a pre-prototype software too
Associated Project(s) ETI-DE2002: Macro Distributed Energy
Associated Dataset(s) No associated datasets
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