District-Heating-Grid Simulation in Python: DiGriPy

Abstract

DiGriPy is a newly developed Python tool for the simulation of district heating networks published as open-source software in GitHub and offered as a Python package on PyPI. It enables the user to easily build a network model, run large-scale demand time series, and automatically compare different temperature-control conditions. In this paper, implementation details and usage instructions are given. Tests showing the results of different scenarios are presented and interpreted.

Keywords

• district heating network
• grid simulation
• heat demand
• open-source software
• Python