Compressed air is typically one of the most expensive utilities in an industrial facility. As a result, potential savings opportunities are aggressively sought out and identified. Once identified, projected energy savings must be calculated in order to justify the cost of implementing the savings opportunity. It is important to calculate projected energy and cost savings as accurately as possib...

The goal of this study was to determine whether the Energy Star home program, as implemented in Gainesville, Florida, is reducing energy use and therefore costs relative to other homes and the extent of the savings. Analysis of Energy Star qualified houses found the savings were appreciable and statistically significant. The indicated energy savings for the average Energy Star household were $1...

In this paper, zigbee communication based wireless energy surveillance system is presented. The proposed system consists of multiple energy surveillance devices and an energy surveillance monitor. Each different standby power-off value of electric device is set automatically by using learning function of energy surveillance device. Thus adaptive standby power-off function provides user convenie...

Sustainable HCI has seen a large growth in the amount of research taking place in the field. However, are we taking the most effective route to generating sustainable sustainability? In the Sustainable HCI community, a large focus of the research has been on persuasive psychological techniques to change individuals’ behaviours to be sustainable. Nevertheless, individual behaviour change has lim...

The key to achieving high energy savings (over 20% consistently) is offering a turn-key (“one-stop-shop”) approach to implementing deep retrofits. This has traditionally been the model utilized by Energy Service Companies (ESCOs) on large projects in the MUSH (Municipal, University, School and Hospital) market. Emerging, small firms have enhanced the ESCOs approach and now deploy it for multifa...

When an energy efficiency improvement occurs at the household level, several mechanisms, grouped under the name of the rebound effect, increase the available income and consumption, increasing the total energy consumption of the economic structure. The present research analyses the links between energy efficiency improvements in households, consumption, and the economic structure in an input-ou...

Abstract Energy demand reduction (EDR) will be required to reach climate targets in the Global North. To compatible with just transitions principles, EDR needs equitable. Equitable may involve targeting high energy users while ensuring satisfaction of for all, which could require increasing consumption low users. Emissions impacts equitable approaches have not yet been assessed. This Article fi...