Benchmarking the building energy consumption and solar energy trade-offs of residential neighborhoods on Chongming Eco-Island, China

Applied Energy

Volumn 180, Issue , 2016, Pages 792-799

  Yang, Tianren ^a,c   Zhang, Xiaoling ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy trade off; Optimization; Photovoltaic energy; Residential neighborhood types

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HOUSING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; RETROFITTING; RURAL AREAS; SOLAR ENERGY;

BUILDING ENERGY CONSUMPTION; CHONGMING ECO ISLANDS; CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES; COST EFFECTIVE OPPORTUNITY; PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; TRADE OFF;

ZERO ENERGY BUILDINGS;

BUILDING; ENERGY BUDGET; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY USE; INSTALLATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER;

CHINA; CHONGMING ISLAND; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84981503291     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.039     Document Type: Article

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