Commercial Building Energy Saver: An energy retrofit analysis toolkit

Applied Energy

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 298-309

  Hong, Tianzhen ^a   Piette, Mary Ann ^a   Chen, Yixing ^a   Lee, Sang Hoon ^a   Taylor Lange, Sarah C ^a   Zhang, Rongpeng ^a   Sun, Kaiyu ^a   Price, Phillip ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buildings; Energy conservation measures; Energy efficiency; Energy use; EnergyPlus; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HISTORIC PRESERVATION; OFFICE BUILDINGS; RETROFITTING;

BUILDING OPERATIONS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; ENERGY CONSERVATION MEASURES; ENERGY COST SAVINGS; ENERGY USE; ENERGYPLUS; RETROFIT; TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE;

BUILDINGS;

BENCHMARKING; COST ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; DATABASE; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY PLANNING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941887051     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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