Appendix C

Community heating, including schemes with Combined Heat and Power (CHP) and schemes that recover heat from power stations

class epctk.appendix.appendix_c.CommunityHeating(heat_sources, sap_distribution_type)

Data container for Community heating systems

Parameters:

• heat_sources (List[dict]) – list of heat source dicts
• sap_distribution_type (CommunityDistributionTypes) –

space_heat_effy(_Q_space)

Calculate the space heating efficiency.

Efficiencies work a bit differently for community systems - system efficiency is not accounted to in calculating energy consumption and cost (so we return 100% here, scaled for additional loss factors. System effy is included in CO2 and primary energy factors.

Parameters:_Q_space – ignored, included for compatiblity with equivalent function for regular heating Returns: