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A housing stock model of non-heating end-use energy in England verified by aggregate energy use data

Lorimer, S; (2012) A housing stock model of non-heating end-use energy in England verified by aggregate energy use data. Energy Policy , 50 419 - 427. 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.037. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper proposes a housing stock model of non-heating end-use energy for England that can be verified using aggregate energy use data available for small areas. These end-uses, commonly referred to as appliances and lighting, are a rapidly increasing part of residential energy demand. This paper proposes a model that can be verified using aggregated data of electricity meters in small areas and census data on housing. Secondly, any differences that open up between major collections of housing could potentially be resolved by using data from frequently updated expenditure surveys. For the year 2008, the model overestimated domestic non-heating energy use at the national scale by 1.5%. This model was then used on the residential sector with various area classifications, which found that rural and suburban areas were generally underestimated by up to 3.3% and urban areas overestimated by up to 5.2% with the notable exception of “professional city life” classifications. The model proposed in this paper has the potential to be a verifiable and adaptable model for non-heating end-use energy in households in England for the future.

Type: Article
Title: A housing stock model of non-heating end-use energy in England verified by aggregate energy use data
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.037
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.037
Language: English
Additional information: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Energy, Domestic, Model
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1365652
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