Benchmarking energy performance of residential buildings using two-stage multifactor data envelopment analysis with degree-day based simple-normalization approach

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 106, Issue , 2015, Pages 530-542

  Wang, Endong ^a   Shen, Zhigang ^b,c   Alp, Neslihan ^a   Barry, Nate ^d  

^a Graduate School of Computational Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Building energy performance; Data envelopment analysis; Retrofitting; Simple normalization

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HOUSING; RETROFITTING;

BENCHMARKING METHODS; BUILDING ENERGY PERFORMANCE; CLIMATIC VARIABLES; EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; ENERGY BENCHMARKING; MANAGEMENT FACTORS; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING; SIMPLE-NORMALIZATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84952660381     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2015.09.072     Document Type: Article

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