Schnidrig, JonasTerrier, CédricMaréchal, FrançoisChuat, Arthur2023-05-122023-05-122023-05-122023-03-24https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/197648This research presents a framework to identify and integrate typical districts in a national energy system to assess the impact of decentralized energy hub configurations. The framework includes a two-step global sensitivity analysis to determine the model’s most influential parameters and explore the districts’ solution space. The application of the framework on 10 representative districts of Switzerland reveals a variety of configurations for the built environment. Integrating these solutions into the national model indicates a 15% increase in annual costs due to a higher space heating demand of the built environment. The decentralized approach focuses on the deployment of PV within urban areas with a third of the total capacity of the centralized approach, while the distribution of decentralized technologies is the same for both models. The impact of feed-in tariff variation allows for identifying a levelized cost of electricity within each district. Districts in urban areas have a lower levelized cost of electricity than those in rural areas due to higher PV penetration. Overall, this frame- work provides insights into the potential to deploy renewable energy sources at the district level and the required investments to reach energy independence and carbon neutrality in the country.Energy systemEnergy hubDistrictBuildingEnergyScopeREHOArchetypesClusteringstudent work::master thesis