Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case of an office building in England and show how the technology in energy efficiency in building will contribute to energy conservation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents a case of an office building. The building is then...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a methodology to improve decision making about investments that reduce buildings' energy consumption. Design/methodology/approach – A three‐stage methodology was developed and tested to analyse an existing Australian office building's...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to solve the optimal power dispatch problem of thermal generating units with cubic fuel cost and emission functions. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed Simplified Direct Search Method (SDSM) is developed from the Direct Search Method (DSM) that...

Purpose – The US natural gas industry has gone through regulatory changes and consequently restructuring over the last 40 years, in an effort to be more market driven. The purpose of this paper is to present an economic analysis of price cointegration in the US natural gas industry as a result...