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NESO Building Heat Model
NESO
- Licence
- Unclear
- Cost
- Check with holder
- Account needed
- Unclear
- Harvestable
- Automated
What it contains
Macro-enabled Excel model plus synthetic half-hourly heat demand profiles for ASHP, GSHP, electric boiler, gas boiler and domestic hot water, parameterised by building characteristics, weather and thermostat behaviour. One-minute timestep aggregated to half-hourly.
When you need it
Useful at these project stages, from the working group's stage matrix:
- Matched on
- Annual energy consumption; Load profile
- Assigned by
- Matched to data items the matrix names
Coverage and detail
- Geographic
- Great Britain (model, not observations)
- Nations
- England, Scotland, Wales
- Resolution
- Half-hourly profiles per archetype
- Formats
- CSV (input parameters, output profiles), XLSM (tool), PPT (user guide)
- Update cadence
- Occasional revisions
Access and machine route
- Licence as stated
- NESO Open Data Licence
- Assertion source
- as published by NESO
- Protocol
- CKAN 3 Action API
- Endpoint
- https://api.neso.energy/api/3/action/package_show?id=building-heat-model
- Harvest note
- yes-automated
Caveats
MAJOR FIND for heat modelling. Profiles are SYNTHETIC - designed for system modelling, not a record of measured household behaviour.
Classification
- Category
- Demand & Heat Users
- Sub-category
- 2.2 Heat & cooling demand estimates
- Assigned by
- Stated by the source
- Depth domain
- 0–200 m
- Technology
- Closed-loop GSHP
- Data form
- Time series, Tabular
- Evidence confidence
- Not yet assessed. Only a person can set this.
How current this entry is
- Last updated here
- 2026-09-22
- Last checked against the holder
- 2026-09-07
- Checked by a person
- Not yet. Nobody has read this entry.
- Catalogue id
- neso-building-heat-model
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NESO. NESO Building Heat Model. Accessed via UK Geothermal Data Catalogue, https://catalogue.geothermaluk.org/id/neso-building-heat-model/. Record neso-building-heat-model.