Print Email Facebook Twitter Pricing heat in an open heat network Title Pricing heat in an open heat network: Research into the application and effects of several pricing mechanisms and transmission loss allocation methods on the performance of a competitive wholesale market Author Guichard, Joris (TU Delft Technology, Policy and Management) Contributor Bots, P.W.G. (mentor) De Vries, Laurens (mentor) Lukszo, Z. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Complex Systems Engineering and Management (CoSEM) Date 2018-08-21 Abstract As heating forms a large share of the primary energy consumption in the Netherlands, district heating networks are regarded as an effective means to address the emissions- and renewable energy targets. In the Province of Zuid-Holland, the aim is to construct a large-scale regional open heat network that should create a more sustainable built environment. Since open heat networks are a novel phenomenon, challenges arise that relate to the organisation of this market, how heat should be priced and more specifically how to deal with the unique characteristics of transmission losses with heat. In this thesis, evaluate several conventional pricing mechanisms are evaluated and an alternative pricing mechanism including a transmission loss allocation method is developed by means of an algorithm, to investigate if it improves the market performance. This alternative pricing mechanism succeeds in allocating the transmission losses to loads on the basis of fairness, but overall fails to improve the wholesale market performance compared to other pricing mechanisms. The allocation method can be improved, depending on the desirable market outcomes, by adapting several assumptions and procedures in the algorithm. Subject open heat networkstransmission loss allocationdistrict heatingpricing mechanismslocational hybrid pricing To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:376bb1d8-8790-4575-884f-8b7db1f90370 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2018 Joris Guichard Files PDF MSc_Thesis_Joris_Guichard.pdf 6.8 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:376bb1d8-8790-4575-884f-8b7db1f90370/datastream/OBJ/view