readme.md

LoadProfileGenerator

This repository contains the full source code for the LoadProfileGenerator.

Binaries are available at https://www.loadprofilegenerator.de

The manual is available here, in the second part of the author's PhD thesis.

Contributions

Contributions are highly welcome. Feel free to send me pull requests.

Plans

• Improve electromobility
• Speed improvements
• International profiles

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Noah Pflugradt (FZJ IEK-3), Peter Stenzel (FZJ IEK-3), Martin Robinius (FZJ IEK-3), Detlef Stolten (FZJ IEK-3)

You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with this program.
If not, see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

Citation

If you want to use the LoadProfileGenerator for a publication, please cite the following paper:

Pflugradt et al., (2022). LoadProfileGenerator: An Agent-Based Behavior Simulation for Generating Residential Load Profiles. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(71), 3574, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03574

External Data

The LoadProfileGenerator uses solar radiation profiles from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, www.dwd.de) and from Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/pvgis)

About Us

We are the Institute of Energy and Climate Research - Techno-economic Systems Analysis (IEK-3) belonging to the Forschungszentrum Jülich. Our interdisciplinary department's research is focusing on energy-related process and systems analyses. Data searches and system simulations are used to determine energy and mass balances, as well as to evaluate performance, emissions and costs of energy systems. The results are used for performing comparative assessment studies between the various systems. Our current priorities include the development of energy strategies, in accordance with the German Federal Government’s greenhouse gas reduction targets, by designing new infrastructures for sustainable and secure energy supply chains and by conducting cost analysis studies for integrating new technologies into future energy market frameworks.

Acknowledgements

2010-2016

This software was first developed at

Technische Universität Chemnitz - Professur Technische Thermodynamik

2016-2020

Berner Fachhochschule - Labor für Photovoltaik-Systeme

Part of the Development was funded by the

Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Starting March 2020

Currently development is funded by the Forschungszentrum Jülich - IEK 3.