Electrification of Heat optimisation example
I’ve been using this tool over the last week to simulate what the effect of improving control settings could be on some of the Electrification of Heat systems, e.g this period for EOH2578: Emoncms - app view.
Here’s the real data:
and here’s the simulated version:
Tuning the weather compensation and running the heat pump all day could improve the COP and reduce running costs by 20%:
This heat pump is a bit over-sized hence continued cycling even at minimum modulation.
We might be able to save 10p with a bit of a setback (using auto adapt control mode here rather than fixed speed):
Cosy costs would be similar with this simple setback schedule but deliver savings with over-heating during cheaper periods, e.g almost a £1 saving here vs continuous mode (18%) or a £2.31 saving (34%) vs the initial poorly optimised weather comp base line.
Thoughts very welcome!
It’s possible to explore all sorts of things with this!