MODELING AND CONTROLLING HEATING, VENTILATION, AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEMS

摘要

Methods, systems, and computer storage media are disclosed for modeling HVAC systems. In some examples, a method is performed by a computer system and includes receiving training data for thermal modeling of one or more buildings of a geographic area. The training data includes disaggregated HVAC load data for the buildings of the geographic area and outdoor temperature data for the geographic area. The method includes determining a thermal resistance value and a thermal capacity value characterizing the buildings of the geographic area. The thermal resistance value characterizes a rate of energy transfer by each of the buildings due to conductance and the thermal capacity value characterizes an amount of energy used to change an indoor temperature of each of the buildings per unit change in temperature. The method includes modeling HVAC operation for a particular building of the geographic area using a thermal resistance-capacity model.