ESDL
  • ESDL Documentation
  • Introduction
  • Energy Data Modelling
  • ESDL concepts
    • Design principles
    • Energy System structure
    • Data types
      • Energy System
      • Areas
      • Items, Assets, EnergyAssets and Services
        • Overview of EnergyAssets
      • Profiles
      • Energy System Information
        • Carriers
        • DataSources
        • Mobility Fuel Information
        • Profiles
        • Quantities And Units
        • Sectors
      • KPIs
    • ESDL model
  • How to use ESDL
    • Using ESDL to model an energy system
      • Setup Eclipse using the update site
      • ESDL Tree editor
      • ESDL Graphical editor / ESDL Designer
    • Example ESDL models
      • Describing a house
      • Describing a municipality
      • Describing a profile
  • ESDL models and tools
    • ESDL MapEditor
    • Energy System Simulator (ESSIM)
    • Energy Data Repository (EDR)
  • ESDL related projects
    • Warming Up
    • Mondaine
  • Software development with ESDL
    • Integration with Java
    • Integration with Python and pyEcore
    • Jupyter Notebook ESDL tutorial
  • Contributing to ESDL
    • Setting up the Eclipse Modelling Tools
      • Generating model, edit and editor code
  • Contact
  • ESDL Release Notes
  • ESDL Color Scheme
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  • Energy System Usage
  • Combining data

Energy Data Modelling

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In order to fully understand how an energy system operates and how it can evolve, multiple types of information needs to be combined. Information on how and where the energy system is installed, what the installed base is, what the evolution potential is and how the energy system is used all form a part of the puzzle. This chapter describes these different types of data, a description on how they can be combined and modelled in ESDL follows in the next chapters.

Energy System Registration

The first type of information is named the ‘energy system registration’, this is geo-oriented data that contains information such as: buildings characteristics, installed base of energy consuming/producing/converting appliances and topologies and other characteristics of energy transportation networks.

Energy System Potential

The second type of information is the ‘energy system potential’. This information is also typically geo-oriented and describes the potential and constraints of the energy system to evolve. For example information about: areas where wind turbines can be installed, areas where geothermal sources can be found and areas that are suitable for district heating (heat networks).

Energy System Usage

The third type of information is ‘energy system usage’. This type of information is providing insight on how the energy system is used over time. Typically this results in profiles or measurements for a certain duration of time. Examples of this information are: yearly energy consumption of a building, a profile of the production of a PV panel and a profile of the usage of a heat pump. This information describes the dynamic behaviour of the energy system.

Combining data

To fully understand how a certain energy system is functioning and can evolve, the 3 types of information states in the sections above should be combined. Typically a source of energy data provides information within the scope of one of the types. ESDL provides the means to model these three aspects of the energy system in one common language and reason more powerful on the combined data.