CREST Demand Model

The model is an integrated thermal-electrical demand model based on a bottom-up activity-based structure, using stochastic programming techniques to represent dwelling diversity, producing calibrated and validated output at high-resolution, based on reduced-order thermal-electrical networks to represent thermal dynamics, and developed as free open-source software to promote transparency and further research.<br>Please note that there are some minor bugs in previous versions of the software (versions 2.3 and 2.3.1) that would cause small numerical errors and in some cases could stop the the programme working depending on the version of Excel used.<br>Version 2.1 of this model was uploaded on 1st December 2015.Version 2.2 of this model was uploaded on 19th April 2016.Version 2.3 of this model, now capable of modelling Indian households was uploaded on 5th February 2018Version 2.3.1 was uploaded on 2nd November 2018.Version 2.3.3 was uploaded on 15th May 2020.

本模型为集成式热-电负荷需求模型，采用自下而上基于活动的结构框架，借助随机规划技术表征住宅多样性；其基于降阶热-电网络刻画热动力学特性，可输出经过校准与验证的高分辨率结果，且以免费开源软件形式开发，以提升模型透明度并推动相关研究进展。
请注意，该软件的2.3及2.3.1版本存在少量程序漏洞，会引发微小数值误差；在部分场景下，根据所使用的Excel版本不同，程序甚至可能无法正常运行。
本模型2.1版本于2015年12月1日发布；2.2版本于2016年4月19日发布；2.3版本新增印度家庭用能建模能力，于2018年2月5日发布；2.3.1版本于2018年11月2日发布；2.3.3版本于2020年5月15日发布。