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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"household electricity"”.
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Social norms, social distance, social approval and household electricity consumption: A field experiment in Cape Town
This research tested whether households in Cape Town would respond to reported social norms of electricity consumption in a manner consistent with theory and earlier studies.
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Household electricity access and households dynamics : insights into the links between electricity access and household dynamics in South Africa between 2008 and 2012
… the details behind aggregate shifts in household electricity access in South Africa. More specifically, when viewed from a cross-sectional perspective, we note a significant (and surprising) decline in electricity access between 2008 and 2010, followed by a substantial improvement in …
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Energy use in multi-family dwellings : measurements and methods of analysis
… heating, domestic hot water heating, common electricity and household electricity. Different building techniques and technical systems were used at the different properties. A measurement program including hourly measurements of district heating, common electricity and household electricity …
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A consumer assessment of household attitudes, awareness, drivers and likelihood of installing solar water heaters under a monthly payment scheme in Cape Town, South Africa
… energy by using the heat of the sun instead of electricity to heat household water. On average, SWHs displace 30 % of household electricity usage, decreasing both household electricity costs and national electricity supply. South Africa has favourable solar conditions and encouraging policy …
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Nonelectric, standalone heating element for an infant incubator
… world, specifically targeting places where household electricity is uncommon. Thus, Anya requires a nonelectric heating method. Paraffin wax, a phase change material with high latent heat storage, was selected as the heating element for study. The wax can be melted in boiling water, used to …
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Implementations of electric vehicle system based on solar energy in Singapore : assessment of solar photovoltaic systems
… private house model were evaluated. The cost of electricity from a relatively large scale grid-tied PV system is found to be at around US$0.173/kWh which is not market competitive with the utility electricity price of US$0.109/kWh in Singapore. But with enough capital funding and government …
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Building Energy Profile Clustering Based on Energy Consumption Patterns
… was carried out on real energy data of ~250 households. The comparative assessment (both qualitatively and quantitatively) demonstrated the applicability of the proposed approach compared to benchmark techniques for power time-series clustering of household load shapes. The contribution of …
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Designing Electricity Distribution Network Tariffs for Beneficial Electrification
… is broad consensus that the flat volumetric electricity tariffs currently in place for residential customers in most of the US discourage electrification and do not reflect the underlying marginal costs of electricity delivery. Under flat volumetric tariffs, utilities are projecting sharp …
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End-use electrification in the residential sector : a general equilibrium analysis of technology advancements
… improvements in this sector can reduce household energy consumption by over 25% by 2020 (McKinsey Global Energy and Materials, 2009). In this thesis, given the increasing amount of attention that both policy-makers and industry are giving to residential energy use, I examine the …
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A framework for privacy-preserving data sharing in smart grid
… in order to effectively collect consumer (or household) electricity consumption data, we also propose an efficient lightweight privacy- preserving data aggregation scheme, called ELPDA, for smart grid. The proposed scheme aims at resolving the power consumption data security and residential …
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Socio-material constructs of domestic energy demand: Household and housing practices in Pakistan
… time, giving rise to unsustainable levels of electricity consumption in middle-class housing in Lahore, Pakistan. It further investigates how household practices fit within the wider system of housing practices and how this can inform low-energy interventions in house design and use. The …
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Energy Services in Sweden - Customer Relations towards Increased Sustainability
… invisible activity and the contacts between household custo-mers and utilities are sometimes only repre-sented through the energy bill. In this thesis, three particular fields are emphasized where these interactions comes into focus: Electricity peak load problems and load manage-ment in …
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Study of an innovative non intrusive load monitoring system for energy emancipation of domestic users: hardware and ICT optimized solutions
… (NIALM) is the process of disaggregating a household s total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. Smart meters are currently being deployed on national scales, providing a platform to collect aggregate household electricity consumption data. Existing approaches to NIALM …
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Analyzing Electricity Use of Low Income Weatherization Program Participants Using Propensity Score Analysis and a Hierarchical Linear Growth Model
… of residential energy efficiency upgrade(s) on household electricity use for the low-income community over the course of a year in the City and County of Denver, Colorado. Propensity score analysis with risk set matching was performed at each month under analysis applying nearest neighbor and …
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Electricity and Economic Development: Evidence from Bangladesh
… the impacts and implications of prepaid electricity metering systems in both residential and industrial contexts in Bangladesh. This thesis focuses on three distinct issues: (i) investigating the impact of prepaid metering on residential electricity use, (ii) examining how prepayment …
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Electricity and Economic Development: Evidence from Bangladesh
… the impacts and implications of prepaid electricity metering systems in both residential and industrial contexts in Bangladesh. This thesis focuses on three distinct issues: (i) investigating the impact of prepaid metering on residential electricity use, (ii) examining how prepayment …
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Exploring Antecedents to Environmentally-Consequential Consumer Choices and Behaviors
… empirical analysis of a large panel dataset of household-level 15-minute interval electricity consumption data to identify the drivers of different behavioral response patterns to electric utility requests for energy conservation on hot summer afternoons. The first essay is motivated by the …