Abstract The US government has set a target of reducing CO2 emissions by 20% below the 2005 targets by the year 2020. Literature review reveals that residential buildings contribute over 20% of the total emissions mainly used for space heating, cooling, water heating and lighting. In hot humid climates, the concern is mainly for cooling and hot water that account for over 50% of the total resid...

Buildings energy efficiency has occupied a prominent place on the agenda over the last decade. This study aims to assess the economic viability of improving the energy performance of residential buildings, by comparing additional costs of investment with the monetary savings achievable through reduced energy

Electric power systems are experiencing profound transformation driven by various factors. Bearing in mind the fact that most of today's electrical energy is produced using CO2 emitting fossil fuels, there is an obvious need to switch to renewable energy resources. Various new approaches under a 'Smart Gris umbrella' have thus emerged to tackle this problem. One of them is a so called Smart Hou...

Traditional power grid and its demand-side management (DSM) techniques are centralized and mainly focus on industrial consumers. The ignorance of residential and commercial sectors in DSM activities degrades the overall performance of a conventional grid. Therefore, the concept of DSM and demand response (DR) via residential sector makes the smart grid (SG) superior over the traditional grid. I...

Mandatory energy codes to curb energy use of residential buildings have been formally launched in China for more than two decades but little has been publicized in literature. Similar codes are not available for residential buildings in Hong Kong, but most residential buildings in Hong Kong, especially public housing estates, are HK-BEAM certified to demonstrate their compliance with regulatory...

Residential areas show plenty of texture information on high resolution remotely sensed imagery. Appropriate description about this texture information for discriminating residential class and its background is a key problem for improving the classification results. Method for selecting proper texture parameters is presented in this paper. Based on the analysis of residential texture, grey leve...

An electricity demand reduction project based on comprehensive residential consumer engagement was established within an Australian community in 2008. By 2011, both the peak demand and grid supplied electricity consumption had decreased to below pre-intervention levels. This case study research explored the relationship developed between the utility, community and individual consumer from the r...