TY  - JOUR
IS  - 4
A1  - Sweetnam, T
A1  - Spataru, C
A1  - Barrett, M
A1  - Carter, E
Y1  - 2019///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
N1  - © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
SN  - 0961-3218
ID  - discovery10042809
AV  - public
EP  - 343
JF  - Building Research and Information
N2  - This paper presents results from a field study that deployed demand shifting technology on a sample of 28 homes connected to a district heating (DH) network in England over the winter of 2015/2016. The aim was to improve the load factor of the participating households. Improving load factors has the potential to improve the attractiveness of DH and accelerate the roll out of DH networks in the UK. Capital costs are lowered by reducing required boiler capacity and pipework sizes. Operational costs are reduced by increasing the coverage of the primary plant and reducing heat losses and pumping energy. In addition to specific insights for the deployment of demand shifting on DH networks the results provide general lessons for the utilization of building thermal inertia for demand shifting. The interventions tested have increased the load factor of the participating homes from 0.29 to 0.44. Achieving this has led to an increase in energy demand of approximately 3% however estimated network cost savings exceed this increased energy cost. While some participants noted the altered operation of their heating systems and expressed concern, the majority indicated they would be willing to participate in a commercial scheme for a small financial reward.
VL  - 47
SP  - 330
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2018.1426314
KW  - Demand-side response
KW  -  district heating
KW  -  control systems
KW  -  behaviours; buildings; energy demand; energy efficiency; occupant behaviour; smart grids
TI  - Domestic demand-side response on district heating networks
ER  -