Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday life more sustainable

Applied Energy

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1920-1926

  Ellegård, Kajsa ^a   Palm, Jenny ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Energy consumption; Household; Policy; Time diary; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; HOUSEHOLD; POLICY; TIME DIARY;

ENERGY POLICY;

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 79551572071     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.11.019     Document Type: Article

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