RT Journal Article
T1 The impact of weather variation on energy consumption in residential houses.
A1 Fikru, Mahelet G.
A1 Gautier, Luis
K1 Recursos energéticos renovables
K1 Cambios climáticos
K1 Consumo de energía
AB This paper studies the impact of weather variation on energy use by using 5-minutes interval weather–energy data obtained from two residential houses: house 1 is a conventional house with advanced efficiency features and house 2 is a net-zero solar house with relatively more advanced efficiency features. Our result suggests that energy consumption in house 2 is not as sensitive to changes in weather variables as the conventional house. On average, we find that a one unit increase in heating and cooling degree minutes increases energy use by about 9% and 5% respectively for house 1 and 5% and 4% respectively for house 2. In addition, our findings suggest that non-temperature variables such as solar radiation and humidity affect energy use where the sensitivity rates for house 2 are consistently lower than that of house 1. Furthermore our result suggests that the sensitivity of energy use to weather depends on the season and specific time of the day/night.
PB Elsevier
YR 2015
FD 2015
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31817
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/31817
LA eng
NO Mahelet G. Fikru, Luis Gautier, The impact of weather variation on energy consumption in residential houses, Applied Energy, Volume 144, 2015, Pages 19-30, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.040.
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