Equity-Aware Decarbonization of Residential Heating Systems

Presence of thermophilic acintomycetes in residential heating systems.

Thermophilic actinomycetes, associated with a hypersensitivity pneumonitis, may be found in compost but also have been detected in heating systems of office buildings. This study was designed to determine whether these organisms were present in residential heating systems. Furnace dust or humidifier water of 12 of 20 homes contained thermophilic actinomycetes, indicating that the organisms may ...

The Neurothermostat: Predictive Optimal Control of Residential Heating Systems

The Neurothermostat is an adaptive controller that regulates indoor air temperature in a residence by switching a furnace on or oo. The task is framed as an optimal control problem in which both comfort and energy costs are considered as part of the control objective. Because the consequences of control decisions are delayed in time, the Neurothermostat must anticipate heating demands with pred...

Human Behavior Aware Energy Management in Residential Cyber-Physical Systems

Technological advancements, such as smart appliances, have enabled residential buildings to become a true Cyber-Physical System (CPS), where the devices correspond to the physical system and the smart computation and control mechanisms define the cyber part. An important aspect of these residential cyber-physical systems is their large portion of the overall energy consumption in the electric g...

Solar Heating and Cooling for Residential Applications

Cost Liability and Residential Space Heating

Within the German welfare system, heating expenditures of recipients are in general fully covered by the government. This paper empirically tests for the hypothesis that households receiving welfare payments turn to over consumption of residential space heating. We use microdata from two different data sources to explore whether conditional heating expenditures of these households significantly...