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Add gas heater to heat source #1567

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DorinevanderVlies opened this issue Nov 18, 2016 · 1 comment
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Add gas heater to heat source #1567

DorinevanderVlies opened this issue Nov 18, 2016 · 1 comment

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In the real world of heat networks a gas heater is often used as a backup for, for example, a geothermal heat source.

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Add gas heater as an option to the dispatchable source of the heat source list

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The ETM uses back-up heaters for the central heat network, but not for local heat networks. This is why they are not available in the ETM SA (according to @ChaelKruip). They should be, though.

In practice, no heat network operates with a single heat source. This could mean people are left in the cold in case of a malfunction. The cheapest and most practical means of back-up is a large gas-fired heater. This can be started-up on short notice and is not too expensive.

as issue #1568 makes clear. We cannot correctly model the O&M/marginal costs of these backup technologies. using a gas-fired CHP is not a good fall-back option, as this would be financially inefficient (a back-up source rarely runs, so maintaining an electricity connection is expensive).

@antw antw removed their assignment Jan 19, 2023
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