"Key district heating technologies for building energy flexibility: A r" by Yurun Guo, Shugang Wang et al.
In the background of the continued integration of renewable energy sources (RES) and the increasing flexibility on the demand side, the diversity and complexity of new technologies for heating present increased challenges for design and operation of district heating systems (DHS). This work first reviews the progress of the new generation of DHS, followed by providing an overview of investigations on building energy flexibility in the field of heating, with a focus on the characterization and quantification of energy flexibility, the realization of thermal flexibility, and the use of building ...