Big Data and Residential Energy Efficiency Evaluation
Big Data and Residential Energy Efficiency Evaluation
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DOI:
10.1007/s40518-018-0098-4
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发表时间:
2018-01
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Y. Qiu;A. Patwardhan
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Y. Qiu;A. Patwardhan
Purpose of ReviewRecent development of energy big data could potentially transform existing energy efficiency evaluation studies into more accurate, generalizable, and scalable ones. This review article covers existing residential energy efficiency evaluation studies and residential building energy studies.Recent FindingsResults reveal that the majority of existing energy efficiency evaluation frameworks and traditional statistical analysis are not sufficient enough to identify the causal impact of energy efficiency. In reality, households mostly self-select into energy efficiency installations and the observed changes in energy consumption after the installations may be due, at least in part, to certain factors that are generally time-variant and unobservable to the statistician.SummaryResearchers can utilize emerging large-scale building energy datasets combined with high-frequency energy demand data to develop innovative computational energy efficiency evaluation frameworks. Such frameworks should incorporate knowledge and advances from various disciplines including machine learning, statistics, and econometrics in order to provide more accurate and information-rich causal impact evaluations of energy efficiency measures.