Marginal Costs for District Heating

An equivalent marginal cost-pricing model for the district heating market

District heating pricing is a core element in reforming the heating market. Existing district heating pricing methods, such as the cost-plus pricing method and the conventional marginal-cost pricing method, cannot simultaneously provide both high efficiency and sufficient investment cost return. To solve this problem, the paper presents a new pricing model, namely Equivalent Marginal Cost Prici...

District Heating in Buildings

This paper is published by Euroheat & Power. Our aim is to inform about district heating and cooling as efficient and environmentally benign energy solutions that make use of resources that otherwise would be wasted, delivering reliable and comfortable heating and cooling in return.

Multi-Agent Systems for District Heating Management.book

i This thesis investigates the applicability of multi-agent systems as a control approach for district heating systems. The consumers, i.e., the heat exchange systems, in current district heating systems are purely reactive devices and have typically no communication capabilities. They are only able to make local decisions without taking into account the global situation in the system. In this ...

District Heating Networks Calculation and Optimization

The first step in studying the behavior of a pipe network is to identify the objectives that must be attained and the physical and logical problems that must be solved; this aim can be achieved by building a suitable model of the network. The next step must be the operation of the model (which, for example, in the case of numerical models consists of using an appropriate algorithmic procedure) ...

Numerical modelling of district heating networks