This demo project has studied the dynamic value of heat supplied to the district heating system. Many of the methods used and the obtained results could also be used in a study on the demand side.

The demo case was divided into two approaches:

• Model­based analyses to compute the value of heat based on location (node in grid) and time (hour).
• Proposals of practical contracts with heat suppliers, which can vary from very simple tariffs (e.g. Time­Of­Use, with price differentiation between summer and winter or between day and night) to more advanced (e.g., time­varying day-­ahead prices resulting from a dispatch procedure).