Grey-box modeling, as one of the three fundamental modeling techniques for building
energy models, has many advantages compared with black-box modeling and white-box …

Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Over the past decades, detailed individual building energy models (BEM) on the one side
and regional and country-level building stock models on the other side have become …

In the European Union, the building sector is one of the largest energy consumer with about
40% of the final energy consumption. Reducing consumption is also a sociological …

Urban energy use modeling is important for understanding and managing energy
performance in cities. However, the existing methods and tools have limitations in …

City governments and energy utilities are increasingly focusing on the development of
energy efficiency strategies for buildings as a key component in emission reduction plans …

The world is rapidly urbanizing, and the energy intensive built environment is becoming
increasingly responsible for the world's energy consumption and associated environmental …

This article investigates the effect of air conditioning (AC) systems on air temperature and
examines their electricity consumption for a semiarid urban environment. We simulate a 10 …

The increase in air temperature produced by urbanization, a phenomenon known as the
urban heat island (UHI) effect, is often neglected in current building energy simulation …

The intermittency introduced by the increasing integration of distributed renewable energy
sources is challenging the efficient operation of residential distribution systems. A promising …