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@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
2025-08-25 13:10:46

A new take on district heating and #flexibility: can dynamic pricing help reduce overall heating costs? The short answer is yes, and automatic controllers would reinforce this effect. Peak heat demand, sometimes also from fossil sources, can thus be reduced.

The left graph shows production costs, consumer prices and target demand over a 24-hour period. The first two are negatively correlated with the third. The right graph shows the production cost reduction in five different demand response scenarios: up to 52.6%.