This repository contains the full source code for the LoadProfileGenerator.

Binaries are available at https://www.loadprofilegenerator.de

The manual is available here, in the second part of the author's PhD thesis.

Contributions are highly welcome. Feel free to send me pull requests.

• Improve electromobility
• Speed improvements
• International profiles

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Noah Pflugradt (FZJ IEK-3), Peter Stenzel (FZJ IEK-3), Martin Robinius (FZJ IEK-3), Detlef Stolten (FZJ IEK-3)

You should have received a copy of the MIT License along with this program.
If not, see https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

If you want to use the LoadProfileGenerator for a publication, please cite the following paper:

Pflugradt et al., (2022). LoadProfileGenerator: An Agent-Based Behavior Simulation for Generating Residential Load Profiles. Journal of Open Source Software, 7(71), 3574, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03574

The LoadProfileGenerator uses solar radiation profiles from Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD, www.dwd.de) and from Photovoltaic Geographical Information System (PVGIS, https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/pvgis)

This software was first developed at

Technische Universität Chemnitz - Professur Technische Thermodynamik

Berner Fachhochschule - Labor für Photovoltaik-Systeme

Part of the Development was funded by the

Swiss Federal Office of Energy

Currently development is funded by the Forschungszentrum Jülich - IEK 3.