Technologies

Creating a LES from a scaled scenario in the Energy Transition Model couples the technologies in that scenario to the chosen network topology. All technologies are taken into account in ETMoses, but not all are modelled explicitly. ETMoses models the following technologies explicitly:

• Electrical technologies
  • [Electric car] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Electric-vehicles)
  • Heat pump for hot water (air)
  • Heat pump for hot water (ground)
  • Heat pump for space heating (air)
  • Heat pump for space heating (ground)
  • Households space heater electricity
  • Households water heater electricity
  • Households space heater district heating
  • Households water heater district heating
  • [Neighbourhood battery] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Batteries#neighbourhood-battery-buurtbatterij)
  • [Residential PV] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Solar-panels)
  • Other
• [Gas technologies] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Gas-technologies)
  • Households space heater combined network gas
  • Households space heater network gas
  • Households water heater combined network gas
  • Households water heater fuel cell chp gas
  • Households water heater network gas
• Hybrid technologies (electricity and gas)
  • Hybrid heat pump hot water
  • Hybrid heat pump space heater
• Flexibility technologies
  • [Battery] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Batteries#)
  • [Power-to-gas] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Power-to-gas)
  • [Power-to-heat] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Power-to-heat)
• [Buffers] (https://github.com/quintel/etmoses/wiki/Buffers)
  • Buffer space heating
  • Buffer hot water

All other electrical technologies (like lighting, appliances, etc.) are aggregated in base load profiles for which you can select one the following three (see Base loads for more details):

• Household (i.e. modelled profiles for a single household)
• Household aggregated (i.e. EDSN profile which will be used when at least 30 households are connected to an end-point)
• Buildings (i.e. EDSN profile for buildings)

The subsections in this part of the Wiki describe the technologies in more detail.

Attributes

Each technology is described by a set of attributes which are listed below (see image below).

The default values of these technologies have been researched by Quintel and their partners and are described in the subsections of the technology section. Not all attributes are applicable to all technologies and are therefore not selectable.

• Profile: a time profile describing the load that the technology exerts on the network (see profiles for more details)
• Output capacity [kW]
• Input capacity (electricity) [kW]
• Units: number of units installed of this technology; all other attributes need to be specified for one unit of this technology
• O&M costs for ccs per full load hour: operation & maintenance costs for carbon capture & storage per full load hour
• O&M Costs per year: operation & maintenance per year
• Technical lifetime
• Demand [kWh]: amount of energy produced or consumed annually by the technology
• Volume [kWh]: amount of energy that can be stored in the technology
• Initial investment: investment costs per unit of the technology
• *O&M costs per full load hour: operation & maintenance costs per full load hour
• COP / Efficiency: coefficient of performance or efficiency of the technology as a decimal number