Electric utilities, government agencies, and private interests in the US have committed and continue to invest substantial resources – including billions of dollars of financial capital – in the pursuit of energy efficiency and conservation through demand-side management (DSM) programs....

The aim of this study is to develop representative simulation building energy data sets and benchmark models for the Egyptian residential sector. This study reports the results of a recent field survey for residential apartment buildings in Egypt. Two building performance simulation models are...

There are various architectural features of a residential building that can influence its indoor climate and electricity consumption, such as thermal insulation, window size, glazing material, albedo of building façade and orientation. In addition to these architectural features, shading...

For countries pursuing sustainable development and energy efficiency, the use of smart meters is considered a first step in allowing residential consumers to remotely control their energy consumption, and a promising technology for conserving limited energy resources. However, despite the...

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast imposed on all Member States to establish representative reference buildings as an important step in drawing up a methodology for calculating cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements for buildings and building...

The demand of freshwater has surpassed the renewable limit and new water sources are associated with an intensive use of energy. Coincidence between scarcity of water and availability of solar radiation makes solar energy the most suitable option to mitigate the water deficit. This paper...

Evaluating the energy and emissions efficiency, measuring the energy saving and emissions reduction potential, and estimating the carbon price in China at the regional level are considered a crucial way to identify the regional efficiency levels and efficiency promotion potentials, as well as to...

The utilization of low grade heat in process industries has significant potential for improving site-wide energy efficiency. This paper focuses on the techno-economic analysis of key technologies for energy recovery and re-use, namely: Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC), boiler feed water heating,...

Heat integration is a key measure to improving energy efficiency and maximising heat recovery. Since the advent of Pinch analysis in the 1980s, direct and indirect integration approaches have developed in separate domains with very few examples where both approaches are utilised together to...

To investigate the gas production from methane hydrate-bearing sediments, the gas production processes from methane hydrate in porous media using depressurization, two-cycle warm-water injection and a combination of the two methods were characterized in this study. The methane hydrates were...