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Residential renovations : understanding cost-disruption trade-offs

Curtis, John A.; Grilli, Gianluca; Lynch, Muireann - 2024

retrofit disruption, finding it represents a substantial proportion of associated energy cost savings among some households … experience of many households investing in energy retrofits but also of government retrofit schemes falling far short of policy … targets. Just 1-in-4 households are actively receptive to retrofit policy supports, and disruption posing a significant …

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Cooling efficiency improvement

Chen, Jingliang; Shen, Bo; Liu, Lulu; Yao, Lin; Gao, Yu - 2023

With the improvement of people's living standards all over the world, the demand for cooling (both space cooling and refrigeration) continues to grow. The increase in cooling-related energy consumption has a growing impact on global climate change. The importance of improving the energy...

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Energy-efficient homes : effects on poverty, environment and comfort

Roberdel, Vincent P.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Karamychev, … - 2023

Energy efficiency improvements in low income housing are increasingly used as a policy instrument to alleviate poverty. Our paper shows that this may come at the expense of reduced environmental benefits. We follow 125,000 Dutch low-income households during eight years and exploit a...

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Energy efficiency in the British housing stock: Energy demand and the Homes Energy Efficiency Database

Hamilton, Ian G.; Steadman, Philip J.; Bruhns, Harry; … - In: Energy Policy 60 (2013) C, pp. 462-480

The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy …

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Integrated approach to support and develop economic activities in the Brussels Renovation sector of Housing including Socio-economic concerns: D1 - Short overview of the retrofit m...

Meyer, Sandrine - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013

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Heat exchanger network retrofit with a fixed network structure

Jiang, Ning; Shelley, Jacob David; Doyle, Steve; Smith, … - In: Applied Energy 127 (2014) C, pp. 25-33

find retrofit changes to an existing network that can improve energy performance, in practice such changes are most often … uneconomic. This paper will present an approach to heat exchanger network retrofit around a fixed network structure. Network … analysis used is an extension of a previous sensitivity analysis that was introduced to study network flexibility. The proposed …

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Data and analytics to inform energy retrofit of high performance buildings

Hong, Tianzhen; Yang, Le; Hill, David; Feng, Wei - In: Applied Energy 126 (2014) C, pp. 90-106

that how these buildings perform and whether there are retrofit opportunities to further reduce their energy use. This is a …, a suite of analytics were proposed to analyze energy use and to identify retrofit measures for high performance … California to analyze its energy use and identify retrofit opportunities, including: (1) analyzing patterns of major energy end …

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Effect of the anthracite ratio of blended coals on the combustion and NOx emission characteristics of a retrofitted down-fired 660-MWe utility boiler

Liu, Guangkui; Li, Zhengqi; Chen, Zhichao; Zhu, Xingying; … - In: Applied Energy 95 (2012) C, pp. 196-201

Industrial experiments were performed for a retrofitted 660-MWe full-scale arch-fired boiler. The ignition position of the primary air/fuel mixture flow, furnace temperature and flue gas component after the air heater were measured with different anthracite ratios at loads of 660- and 380-MWe....

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Capturing spatial effects, technology interactions, and uncertainty in urban energy and carbon models: Retrofitting newcastle as a case-study

Keirstead, James; Calderon, Carlos - In: Energy Policy 46 (2012) C, pp. 253-267

Local authorities often rely upon urban energy and carbon modelling tools to develop mitigation policies and strategies that will deliver reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. In this paper the UK example of Newcastle-upon-Tyne is used to critique current practice, noting that important...

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Carbon emission reduction targeting through process integration and fuel switching with mathematical modeling

Tiew, B.J.; Shuhaimi, M.; Hashim, H. - In: Applied Energy 92 (2012) C, pp. 686-693

retrofit and fuel switching. However, it involves potentially time consuming manual procedures and the quality of solutions … emissions reduction targeting via fuel switching and HEN retrofit. A sequential model execution was proposed along with the …

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