Dataset and code related to the publication "Aligning heat pump operation with market signals: A win-win scenario for the electricity market and its actors?"

General remarks

This dataset and code was developed and used for the publication

E. Sperber, C. Schimeczek, U. Frey, K. K. Cao, V. Bertsch: Aligning heat pump operation with market signals: A win-win scenario for the electricity market and its actors? In: Energy Reports, Volume 13, June 2025, pp. 491-513, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2024.12.028

Data description

The dataset "heat_pump_results.zip" includes all relevant results underlying the above publication. 

The data is organized according to the scenarios considered in the analysis. Therefore, each folder is labelled according to the scenario structure, starting with the building efficiency scenario ("BAU" / "EFF"), followed by the PV scenario ("no-PV" / "with-PV"), the HP operation scenario ("ModFlex_V", "ModFlex_F", "HighFlex_V"), the simulation year (2030 / 2040) and the weather year (2017 / 2019 / 2023).

Within each result directory per scenario, the data is further structured according to the results at the market level ("AMIRIS") and at the user level ("GAMS" and "INFLEX"). The "INFLEX" directory contains results for the inflexible reference operation, while the "GAMS" directory contains results for the cost-minimized heat pump operation at the level of building types. The data at the user level is further structured by location. Data is given in hourly resolution.

The scenario evaluation indicators presented in the publication, as well as other indicators, are summarized in the "MPI" directory.

Abbreviations used:

• HP: heat pump
• SH: space heating
• DHW: domestic hot water
• AW: air/water
• BW: brine/water
• PV: photovoltaic
• Ti: indoor air temperature
• Ttes: temperature of domestic hot water storage tank

Code description

The code to generate the results is given in "heat_pump_workflow.zip". Please follow the instructions in the README.md that you can find in this archive.

Conctact

Please contact Evelyn Sperber at evelyn.sperber@dlr.de if you have any questions.