Model Factsheets
| Name | Possibly in-house models |
| Acronym | PiHM |
| Methodical Focus | None |
| Institution(s) | Aalto University |
| Author(s) (institution, working field, active time period) | |
| Current contact person | Aira Hast |
| Contact (e-mail) | aira.hast@aalto.fi |
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| Primary Purpose | Simulates the hourly district heat production in an open district heating market |
| Primary Outputs | Marginal cost of heat production, which plants are running, produced heat by plant, heat production cost by plant |
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| Documentation quality | expandable |
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| Number of developers | less than 10 |
| Number of users | - |
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| Planned to open up in the future | |
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| Modelling software | Matlab |
| Internal data processing software | Matlab |
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| Properties electrical grid |
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| Modeled technologies: components for storage |
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| Time resolution | hour | ||||||
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| Model class (optimisation) | - |
| Model class (simulation) | - |
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| Mathematical objective | costs |
| Approach to uncertainty | - |
| Suited for many scenarios / monte-carlo | |
| typical computation time | less than an hour |
| Typical computation hardware | RAM, CPU |
| Technical data anchored in the model |
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| Model file format | .m |
| Input data file format | text |
| Output data file format | .csv |
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| Citation reference | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7216654&filter=AND%28p_Publication_Number:7169452%29 |
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