Optimal Design of Building Energy Supply—A Case Study

In this paper, we optimize the design of a new office building’s energy supply with respect to costs and carbon emissions for one example year. The aim is to gain an overview over the impact of the supply design decision. For that, we combine known concepts to one decision support workflow. We simulate the expected heating loads of the building with a thermal network and use them to set up a mixed-integer linear program for the problem, which we can solve with one or both objectives.