Hybrid residential end-use energy and greenhouse gas emissions model - development and verification for Canada

Journal of Building Performance Simulation

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Swan, Lukas G ^a   Ugursal, V Ismet ^a   Beausoleil Morrison, Ian ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

building simulation; housing database; housing stock; neural network; residential emissions model; residential energy model

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONVERSION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; HOUSING; SOLAR ENERGY; THERMAL ENGINEERING;

BUILDING SIMULATION; EMISSION MODEL; END-USES; ENERGY-CONSUMPTION; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS; HOUSING DATABASE; HOUSING STOCK; NEURAL-NETWORKS; RESIDENTIAL EMISSIONS MODELS; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY MODELS;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84868336865     PISSN: 19401493     EISSN: 19401507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19401493.2011.594906     Document Type: Article

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