3 papers
physics.soc-ph2024
Quantifying national space heating flexibility potential at high spatial resolution with heating consumption data
Claire Halloran, Jesus Lizana, Malcolm McCulloch
Decarbonizing the building stock in cold countries by replacing fossil fuel boilers with heat pumps is expected to drastically increase electricity demand. While heating flexibilit…
physics.soc-ph2023★ 1 cited
Spatial clustering of temporal energy profiles with empirical orthogonal functions and max-p regionalization
Claire Halloran, Malcolm McCulloch
This paper presents a spatial clustering method to create regions with similar time-varying energy characteristics. This method combines empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) for d…
eess.SY2022
Impact of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in heat pump loads on generation and storage requirements
Claire E. Halloran, Filiberto Fele, Malcolm D. McCulloch
This paper investigates how spatiotemporal heterogeneity in inflexible residential heat pump loads affects the need for storage and generation in the electricity system under busin…