This paper presents the preliminary modelling perspectives of an ongoing project where a flexible simulation tool for component and system analysis of district heating consumer installations is developed. The simulation tool makes it possible to simulate district heating consumer installations containing water based central heating systems, domestic hot tap water systems, buildings as well as l...

Canadian researchers are now trying to exploit much more energy from solar sources, hydropower, wind, and biomass. Given the fact that reducing the carbon pollutant level is a political priority in Canada, this paper studies the feasibility of providing sanitary hot water and space heating demands of a four-member family in 10 provinces in this country. The feasibility analysis was performed by...

We consider the problem of short-term peak demand forecasting in a district heating system. Our dataset consists of four separated periods, with 198 days each period and 24 hourly observations within each day relative to heat consumption and climate. We take advantage of the functional nature of the data and we propose a forecasting methodology based on functional regression. The influence of e...