Recently, an increasing number of green residential buildings have been developed worldwide owing to active promotion from the authorities and increasing interest from customers. However, in the same way as traditional residential buildings, the construction of green residential buildings faces various risks. The aims of this study are to identify and assess the diverse risks in green residenti...

“Smart grid”-enabled demand response (DR) provides significant opportunities to improve today’s electricity grids’ reliability, efficiency, affordability and security. In contrast to conventional DR, electricity storage in buildings (residential or commercial) can provide essential, flexible and reliable DR service without requiring consumers to operate their appliances on shifted or reduced sc...

In order to manage efficiently the energy production, storage and management system, it is very important to analyze accurately the energy requirements for residential sector because the residential sector consumes a considerable amount of total energy produced. The main aim of the paper is the assurance of energy production according to the consumer demands in an efficient manner. The energy m...

The residential demand for electricity, studied on the national level for many years, is here investigated on the regional level. A survey of the literature is first presented outlining past econometric work in the field of electrical energy demand. An econometric model is then presented using a 1970 cross-section of sixty-seven New England electric utilities and their service areas as the data...

Heating buildings contributes to approximately 36 % of Europe's energy demand and several EU member states have adopted mandatory energy labels to improve energy efficiency by promoting home weatherization investments. This paper focuses on the perception of the energy label for residential buildings in the Netherlands and the role of different frames (egoistic, biospheric and social norms and ...

In 2002, the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) introduced energy certification schemes to classify and compare building performances support reaching efficiency targets by informing different actors sectors. However, since its implementation, Certifications (EPCs) remained unexploited with limited impact on savings targets. this context, EPC RECAST project aims at studying a new g...

It now seems inevitable that power grids of the future will be massive stochastic networks whose nodes are themselves microgrids comprising generation and storage units, inverters and power conditioning elements, together with controllable aggregations of appliances and other load classes. There will be significant amounts of power coming from wind, solar, and cogeneration enabled by combined h...

As part of the adoption of the 2005 Building Energy Efficiency Standards, the California Energy Commission adopted Joint Appendix IV, which contains standard U-factor, C-factor and Thermal Mass data for roof, wall and floor construction assemblies (see page IV-1 of the Joint Appendices at: http://www.energy.ca.aov/title24/2005standards/2004-10-06 400-03-001JAF.PDF). The data in Joint Appendix I...