In the analysis of property markets, most research focuses on either the commercial or the housing sector. Each body of literature has developed its own ‘stylized facts’ about ‘normal’ values of property such as income yields and price elasticities of supply, around which cyclical models have been built. However, what is treated as normal in one sector may appear as unusual and requiring specia...

The Chinese government has committed to reaching its carbon emissions peak by 2030, which is a major undertaking. However, traditional carbon allocation processes may face a suite of difficulties, including the dynamics of the allocation principle, the independence of the allocation entities and data availability. Considering these difficulties, in this study, we developed a multi-level carbon ...

Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is a technique in which electrical appliances are monitored through the disaggregation of the aggregate electrical signal gathered from a single metering point. NILM has recently attracted wide interest in research for application in both the commercial and residential sectors. In this paper, a completely unsupervised NILM system is proposed for application ...

Electricity demand response refers to consumer actions that change the utility load profile in a way that reduces costs or improves grid security. The focus of demand response has mainly been on the commercial and big industrial sectors because of the large demand reduction that they can offer to the utility grid operators. Utilities are showing increasing interest in residential demand respons...