Evaluation of automatic priced based thermostat control for peak energy reduction under residential time-of-use utility tariffs

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-108

  Surles, William ^a   Henze, Gregor P ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Building energy simulation; Price based control; Programmable thermostat; Real time price; Time of use tariff

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; THERMOSTATS;

BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATIONS; PRICE-BASED; PROGRAMMABLE THERMOSTATS; REAL-TIME PRICE; TIME-OF-USE TARIFFS;

COSTS;

EID: 84861823452     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2012.01.042     Document Type: Article

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