Impact of warmer weather on electricity sector emissions due to building energy use

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2017, Pages

  Meier, Paul ^a,b   Holloway, Tracey ^a   Patz, Jonathan ^a   Harkey, Monica ^a   Ahl, Doug ^c   Abel, David ^a   Schuetter, Scott ^c   Hackel, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Current Affiliation: Blumont Engineering Solutions   (United States)

^c Seventhwave   (United States)

Author keywords

Air quality; buildings; climate impacts; electricity; modeling

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MODELS; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BUILDING ENERGY USE; CLIMATE IMPACTS; ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; POWER-PLANT EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; US ENERGY CONSUMPTION;

BUILDINGS;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; BUILDING; CENSUS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY USE; POWER PLANT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021305193     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa6f64     Document Type: Article

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