Heating, electricity and transportation are the three components of urban systems final energy consumption. Geothermal energy and biomass are two promising renewable energy resources that can be used for the production of heat, electricity and biofuels, thus allowing a reduction of fossil fuel consumption and of the associated greenhouse gas emissions. The goal of this paper is to assess the po...

By international standards the economy of South Africa is extremely energy intensive with only a few countries having higher intensities. SA’s primary energy use per unit of GDP is amongst the highest in the world The high energy and electricity intensity of the economy partly reflects SA’s resource endowments (in particular the abundance of coal) but is also a function of the historical under-...

Zero Budget Sustainability is a high potential service offered by Ploos Energieverlening. In this service, external financers invest in energy saving measures when the owner of the building lacks budget. The resulting savings are used to repay the investor. Currently, both financers and building owners lack confidence in the forecasted savings. It has been indicated that an independent scientif...

nowadays, electricity is one of the most significant infrastructures required for economic development of countries. hence, predicting electricity demand is very important especially in industry as a major electricity-consuming sector. the majority of studies under the subject of electricity demand have been performed by econometrics and it is not possible to investigate the effect of different...

Consumption of energy is influenced by a multitude of factors. Beyond factors determining the demand for a specific energy service, characteristics of and attitudes to the energy product delivering the service can also strongly affect this demand. Attributes of electricity which may influence the demand for electricity services include its cost, its environmental impacts, and the social/politic...

With an increasing use of distributed energy resources and intelligence in the electricity infrastructure, the possibilities for minimizing costs of household energy consumption increase. Technology is moving toward a situation in which households manage their own energy generation and consumption, possibly in cooperation with each other. As a first step, in this paper a decentralized controlle...