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Showing 1 to 20 of 445 for “"energy demand"”.
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Time for mitigation: linking energy demand to wellbeing
… change will require significant reductions in energy demand. However, there are concerns that energy demand reductions involving lifestyle and behavioural changes might negatively impact peoples’ wellbeing. The work in this thesis studies the impacts of how people spend their time – commonly …
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Three Essays Examining Household Energy Demand and Behavior
… consists of three essays examining household energy decisions and behavior. The first essay examines the adoption of energy efficient Energy Star home appliances by U.S. households. Program effectiveness requires that consumers be aware of the labeling scheme and also change their purchase …
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Climate change impacts on electricity and residential energy demand
The energy sector is both affected by climate change and a key sector for climate protection measures. Energy security is the backbone of our modern society and guarantees the functioning of most critical infrastructure. Thus, decision makers and energy suppliers of different countries should be …
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Strategies for reducing energy demand in the materials sector
… question - can the materials sector reduce its energy demand by 50% by 2050? Five primary materials of steel, cement, aluminum, paper, and plastic, contribute to 50% or more of the final energy use and CO₂ emissions by industry, and thus are of primary focus. Both technical and demand-side …
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An empirical analysis of energy demand in Sub-Saharan Africa
… presents the first comprehensive analysis of energy demand in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by analysing the demand functions for both aggregated and disaggregated (by energy types) energy demand models. The main aim of the study is to explore the impact of income, price, economic structure, …
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Modeling sustainable mineral supply pathways to meet clean energy demand
The adoption of renewable energy technologies hinges on the availability of many critical minerals. To meet the large demand for critical minerals, it is vital to scale up mineral supply in an environmentally and socially responsible way while maintaining low materials costs for key technologies. …
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Mathematical modelling of energy demand and supply in the cardiac myocyte
The mechanisms that regulate the control of energy demand and energy supply in the heart muscle are crucial for maintaining normal cardiac function, yet they are not very well understood. Although a number of mechanisms have been proffered by which mitochondrial supply of ATP can change to match …
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Implications of climate change on energy demand and growing-degree days
… stress on various societal sectors like energy infrastructure and agriculture. In response to the changes in climate, heating and cooling demand has changed, along with the length and productivity of the growing season. Metrics for energy demand and for agriculture and ecosystems are …
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Hypothesis, estimation, and validation of dynamic social models : energy demand modeling.
Thesis. 1975. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Transport energy demand: techno-economic modelling and scenarios for Irish climate policy
The case for energy policy modelling is strong in Ireland, where stringent EU climate targets are projected to be overshot by 2015. Policy targets aiming to deliver greenhouse gas and renewable energy targets have been made, but it is unclear what savings are to be achieved and from which sectors. …
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Driving change : evaluating strategies to control automotive energy demand growth in China
… has relentlessly grown in the past decade, the energy demand, fuel demand and greenhouse gas emissions associated with these vehicles have kept pace. This thesis presents a model to project future energy demand, fuel demand and carbon dioxide emissions for the Chinese light duty vehicle fleet. …
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Prediction of peak energy demand and timestamping in commercial supermarkets using deep learning
Peak demand consumption is an ongoing research topic due to current environmental concerns. Accurate prediction of peak demand leads to improved power storage scheduling and smart grid management. However, existing researches on peak demand in commercial buildings lack focus on the timestamps for …
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Reducing the energy demand of bioethanol through salt extractive distillation enabled by electrodialysis
… Fuel Standard (RFS2), established under the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007, mandates the production of 136.3 GL/year of renewable fuels in the U.S. in 2022: 56.8 GL/year of corn-ethanol, 60.6 GL/year of second generation biofuels such as cellulosic ethanol, and 18.9 …
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Socio-material constructs of domestic energy demand: Household and housing practices in Pakistan
Domestic energy demand in the Global South is predicted to grow to nearly three times that of the developed nations by 2040, under rapid urbanisation, economic development and the emergence of a new, high-consuming middle-class. Current energy policy, with its largely technological template and …
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An activity-based energy demand modeling framework for buildings: A bottom-up approach
Energy consumption by buildings, due to various factors such as temperature regulation, lighting, poses a threat to our environment and energy resources. In the United States, statistics reveal that commercial and residential buildings combined contribute about 40 percent of the overall energy …
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Determinants of Commercial Energy Demand: An Empirical Study of Medical Facilities in NY State
… thesis is to (i) estimate a model of commercial energy demand using unique micro-level data, (ii) examine the determinants of energy demand , fossil and electric, from a pool of building characteristics and exogenous variables, and (iii) and explore whether incorporating price volatility, …
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A data-centric stochastic model for simulation of occupant-related energy demand in buildings
… will also need to be a significant reduction in energy demand. The built environment offers opportunities for demand reduction that can help to achieve the necessary targets. For buildings yet to be built there is a real opportunity to design low-energy environments, but the existing building …
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Urban densification, social capital, and domestic energy demand: Neighbourhood restructuring in Jinan City, China
… The policy also fails to address patterns of energy consumption from the demand-side, i.e. how the domestic energy patterns have been shaped and what influences them. Drawing from a practice theory perspective, this research aims to bridge this gap by capturing the households’ lived experience …
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Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system energy demand coupling with building loads for office buildings.
… UK building stock accounts for about half of all energy consumed in the UK. A large portion of the energy is consumed by nondomestic buildings. Offices and retail are the most energy intensive typologies within the nondomestic building sector, typically accounting for over 50% of the nondomestic …
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