State of the Irish housing stock-Modelling the heat losses of Ireland's existing detached rural housing stock & estimating the benefit of thermal retrofit measures on this stock

Energy Policy

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 139-151

  Ahern, Ciara ^a   Griffiths, Philip ^b   O'Flaherty, Micheál ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Detached; Domestic; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION; BUILDING REGULATIONS; CARBON ABATEMENT; DETACHED; DETACHED HOUSE; DOMESTIC; EFFICIENCY MEASURE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY POLICIES; HOUSING STOCK; IRELAND; IRISH GOVERNMENT; LEAST ENERGY; RETROFIT; RURAL HOUSING;

BUILDING CODES; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FUEL OILS; HEATING; RETROFITTING;

HOUSING;

ABATEMENT COST; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; MODELING; RURAL AREA;

IRELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84873155305     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.11.039     Document Type: Article

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