Modelling loads

The network simulation explicitly models some technologies, such as electric vehicles, solar panels, and heat pumps. These have their own load profiles and custom behaviours, which may depend on network constraints like capacity and availability of excess production.

However, households and buildings contain many other electrical devices – such as TVs, washing machines, and computers – not modelled as discrete objects. These are combined together as a "base load", the characteristics of which depend on the size of the endpoint node to which the technology is attached. More information on baseloads can be found in the technologies section on base loads.

Standard load profiles for the different technologies can be found in the [Profile section] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Profiles#default-profiles) of this Wiki.