Response of office building electricity consumption to urban weather in Adelaide, South Australia

Urban Climate

Volumn 10, Issue P1, 2014, Pages 42-55

  Guan, Huade ^a,b   Soebarto, Veronica ^c   Bennett, John ^a   Clay, Roger ^c   Andrew, Robert ^a   Guo, Yunhui ^a,b   Gharib, Saeedeh ^a   Bellette, Kathryn ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR GROUNDWATER RESEARCH AND TRAINING   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate dependency; Electricity consumption; Greenhouse gas emission; Multiple linear regression; Office building; South Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927963746     PISSN: 22120955     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2014.09.005     Document Type: Article

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