Principal component analysis of electricity use in office buildings

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 828-836

  Lam, Joseph C ^a   Wan, Kevin K W ^a   Cheung, K L ^a   Yang, Liu ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy use; Office buildings; Principal component analysis; Subtropical

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION;

CLIMATIC VARIABLES-DRY-BULB TEMPERATURE; ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION DATA;

OFFICE BUILDINGS;

EID: 38549176301     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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