Analysis of real-time electricity consumption in Canadian school buildings

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 128, Issue , 2016, Pages 530-539

  Ouf, Mohamed ^a   Issa, Mohamed ^a   Merkel, Phil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b Customer Engineering Department   (Canada)

Author keywords

Building performance; Electricity consumption; Energy efficiency; Occupant behaviour; School buildings

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TEACHING;

BUILDING PERFORMANCE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY CONSUMPTION DATUM; MANITOBA , CANADA; OCCUPANT BEHAVIOUR; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE; RESIDENTIAL BUILDING;

ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION;

EID: 84978698217     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.07.022     Document Type: Article

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