The energy consumption of buildings accounts for a major share in the modern society.
Accurate forecast of building thermal demand is of great significance to both building …

The district heating (DH) industry is facing an important transformation towards more efficient
networks that utilise significantly lower water temperatures to distribute the heat. This …

In the present research, a high-resolution, detailed electric load dataset was assessed,
collected by smart meters from nearly a thousand households in Hungary, many of them …

The residential sector accounts for an increasing amount of global energy use with
continued urbanization. Residential energy-informed urban planning offers an economical …

Rapid urbanization has put heavy pressure on urban energy supply over the past decades
in China and such a trend is expected to continue. Therefore, it is critical to capture the …

Extensive research demonstrates the importance of user practices in understanding
variations in residential heating demand. Whereas previous studies have investigated …

Building energy modeling provides a fundamental tool to evaluate the potential for energy
efficiency to contribute to reducing world energy consumption and global emissions …

Air conditioning systems are generally considered to have the greatest flexibility potential in
buildings that can be flexibly regulated with thermal storage to reduce the interaction with …

Heat response time (HRT) is one of the key dynamic response characteristics of urban
centralized heating system (UCHS). HRT is also critical to the operation dispatch of large …

The now widespread use of smart heat meters for buildings connected to district heating
networks generates data at an unknown extent and temporal resolution. This data …