Electricity forecasting is an essential component of smart grid, which has attracted
increasing academic interest. Forecasting enables informed and efficient responses for …

Sensitivity analysis plays an important role in building energy analysis. It can be used to
identify the key variables affecting building thermal performance from both energy simulation …

District heating (DH) has been widely acknowledged as the future for urban heating, as
concerns of sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions are pushing, to revamp the …

Many existing technical feasibility and modelling studies in the energy field are criticised for
their limited treatment of societal actors and socio-political dynamics, poor representation of …

The difference between actual and calculated energy is called the 'energy-performance
gap'. Possible explanations for this gap are construction mistakes, improper adjusting of …

Building energy prediction techniques are the primary tool for moving towards sustainable
built environments. Energy prediction models play irreplaceable roles in making energy …

The rapid depletion of natural sources of energy, coupled with increasing global population
has triggered the emergence of various techniques and strategies for building energy …

The increasing demand for improving indoor thermal environment in the hot summer and
cold winter climate zone (HSCW) in the Yangtze River region in China poses enormous …

Households are major contributors to the emission of greenhouse gases and, consequently,
to global warming. The past decades have seen significant improvements in building energy …

Human influence is recognized as a major source of discrepancy between predicted and
actual building energy use and has been a subject of extensive analysis for many years …