Data and analytics to inform energy retrofit of high performance buildings

Applied Energy

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 90-106

  Hong, Tianzhen ^a   Yang, Le ^b   Hill, David ^c   Feng, Wei ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Jones Lang Lassale   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytics; Data model; Energy benchmarking; Energy use; High performance buildings; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BUILDINGS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA STRUCTURES; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ISO STANDARDS; RETROFITTING; TIME SERIES;

ANALYTICS; ENERGY BENCHMARKING; ENERGY USE; HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDINGS; RETROFIT;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BUILDING; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; MONITORING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84899526752     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.03.052     Document Type: Article

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