Studies have shown that many consumers and businesses fail to invest in energy efficiency improvements despite seemingly ample financial incentives to do so - the so called energy & efficiency gap or paradox. Attempts to explain this gap often focus on searching costs, information frictions and...

Demand response (or demand-side response) involves temporary changes in electricity consumption, typically in response to price signals or other financial incentives, or in reaction to grid conditions, is expected to cost-effectively contribute to the much needed power system flexibility, and...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Residential Electricity Consumption Pattern Mining based on Fuzzy Clustering -- Chapter 3 Load Profiling Considering Shape Similarity using Shape-based Clustering -- Chapter 4 Load Classification and Driven Factors Identification based on Ensemble Clustering...

Data centres (DCs) are large electricity consumers, estimated to account for around 1% of worldwide electricity usage. They release excess heat (EH) during the operation, which can be recovered in district heating (DH) networks. DCs are expected to satisfy the rising demand for digital services....