Loading custom load profile generator

[MFaisalZaki]

I am facing an issue regarding the load profiles generator (lpg). I managed to create a district of 6 houses (3 running on gas heaters and the rest running on heat pumps), and I am stuck with the load profile since all 6 houses are using the default load profile.

My question is, how can I load a custom load profile per household?

[Hoppe-J]

Hi,

take a look at the config of the "loadprofilegenerator_utsp_connector.py". There you can set the name of your predefine profile.
If you follow the model and the name of the profile, you come to the "utils.py" model. In this model you define the path, where your profiles are. You can do it the same way as the predefinded "CHR01 Couple both at Work" loadprofile is implemented, just with your profile and profile name and path.
So every singel house can have an other loadprofile.

[MFaisalZaki]

Hi @Hoppe-J, thanks for your reply. I have modified the utils.py and now I am able to load different load profiles. However, I am facing another issue. When I plot the AdvancedHeatPumpHPLib for not households they are identical even thought the loadprofiles are not.

Here is the loadprofiles I used, and here is the modified files.
BUI1.zip
BUI2.zip

Please note that I have slightly modified the district example to give it a try.
modified-files.zip

Do you have any ideas what possible I did wrong? thanks.

[Hoppe-J]

You get the same results because the same instance of the simple_generic_household.py model is loaded twice in the district model without explicit config of each household. You have to parameterize the houses differently. Either you create different instances of the simple_generic_household.py model with the appropriate parameter settings or create a file (e.g. json or csv) with which you can parameterize the houses, in which you then assign the configs to the different instances via a loop.