A grey-box modelling methodology to express home heat-energy usage as statistical distributions - case studies in urban Ireland.

ABSTRACT: Home energy retrofit has recurred in public policy throughout recent decades. However, the savings in energy usage attributable to home retrofit have remained difficult to accurately predict. Occupants cause prediction inaccuracies by varying different factors, especially heating setpoints temperatures and heating patterns. Acting together, such occupant factors result in distributions - not single values - of heat-energy usage, even among similar homes. Datasets of heat-energy distributions can be found by building performance simulation using modern grey-box models. This study presents a methodology to simulate grey-box models of home heating through ranges of heating setpoints and patterns. An entire process to calibrate, validate and simulate at a large scale is described, and then dem

SUBMITTER: Beagon P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9156508 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature