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Demand Profiles
The demand profiles are classified into three scenarios: Present scenario, 2020 scenario (intermediate) and 2050 scenario (future). Monitored data made by Building Research Establishment (BRE) for Milton Keynes Energy Park [1] was used to generate the demand profile for the three scenarios.
The demand profile is generated based on the hourly energy consumption over a 24-hour period for the three scenarios. The present scenario is generated without any alteration, while 2020 and 2050 scenarios are modified to reflect the improvement of thermal and electrical appliance efficiencies [2,3]. Energy performance of buildings (EPBD) stipulates that all new buildings constructed within the European Union after 2020 should reach nearly zero-energy levels [4].
Demand profiles for all of the scenarios are shown below and in more detail on their dedicated pages.
All of our demand profiles and the data used to generate them is available as a spreadsheet download.
References
[1] Milton Keynes Data, J. Edwards (1990), Low energy dwellings in the Milton Keynes Energy Park, Energy Management v26 p32-33. Accessible at: http://data.ukedc.rl.ac.uk/browse/edc/Buildings/MiltonKeynesEnergyPark_1990/MK0-dwellinfo-v2.0.html (accessed 19/3/12).
[2] Chwieduk, D. (2003). Towards sustainable-energy buildings. Applied Energy, 76, p211-217
[3] Borg, S. P. & Kelly, N. J. (2011). The effect of appliance energy efficiency improvements on domestic electric loads in European households. Energy and Buildings, 43, p2240-2250.
[4] Buildings Performance Institute Europe. Principles For nearly Zero-energy Buildings. ISBN: 9789491143021. Accessible at: http://www.bpie.eu/nearly_zero.html (accessed 19/3/12).