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Present Scenario
The generation of the demand profiles for the present scenario were based on high resolution data from real buildings, collected by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) between 1988-1991 at the Milton Keynes Energy Park [1].
Demand profiles were generated for a typical winter and summer day, by averaging the data over a month in winter and in summer (December and June). Profiles were averaged over five different homes to give an average profile shape representative of a small community and scaled to match the average yearly consumption per household in Scotland of 21MWh [2,3]. Finally, the profiles were scaled to a community of 30 houses.
Profiles:
Winter profile:
Winter electrical appliances breakown:
Summer profile:
Summer electrical appliances breakown:
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] Table 13S p99 Domestic Energy Factfile (2007): England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, J. I. Utley and L. D. Shorrock, BRE Group. Accessible at: http://www.bre.co.uk/filelibrary/pdf/rpts/countryfactfile2007.pdf (Accessed 19/3/12).
[3] Table 3.4, Energy Consumption in the UK Domestic Data Tables 2011 Update. Accessible at: http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/statistics/publications/ecuk/ecuk.aspx (Accessed 19/3/12).