Do domestic heating controls save energy? A review of the evidence

Lomas, Kevin J.; Oliveira, Sonja; Warren, Peter; Haines, Victoria; Chatterton, Tim; Beizaee, Arash; Prestwood, Emily; Gething, Bill

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2018.05.002

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“…For residential thermostats, since users have full control over their heating and cooling systems, many of the challenges center around promoting energy saving behavior among occupants. [89], [92], [93]. Misuse of thermostats -by not using energy-saving features as intended-may be due to user confusion and low usability.…”

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A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

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McIlvennie

Brackley

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

103

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In recent years, research has emerged to quantitatively and qualitatively understand occupants' interactions with buildings. However, there has been surprisingly little research on building interfaces and how their design, context (e.g., location), and underlying logic impact their usability and occupants' perceived control, as well as the resulting comfort and energy performance. Research is needed to better understand how occupants interact with building interfaces in both commercial and residential applications; both applications are important to address as there are many differences in interface types, level of control and understanding, and even expectations of engagement. This paper provides a cursory review and discussion of select common building interfaces: windows, window shades/blinds, thermostats, and lighting controls. The goal of this paper is to review literature related to these human-building interfaces to explore interface characteristics, current design and use challenges, and relationships between building interfaces and occupants. Human-building interface interactions are complex, more research is needed to understand design, use, and characteristics. Common themes emerged throughout the literature review to explain occupant interactions (or lack of interactions) with building interfaces, which included thermal and visual comfort, ease and access of control, interface/control placement, poor interface/control design, lack of understanding, and social-behavioral dynamics.

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Section: Rq1: What Influences Behavior?mentioning

confidence: 99%

A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

Day

McIlvennie

Brackley

et al. 2020

Building and Environment

103

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“…In conclusion, standardized and harmonized regression-based approaches can be used to complement recent advances in research regarding end-use energy demand based on epidemiology concepts (Hamilton et al, 2013;Hamilton et al, 2017), providing suitable evidence (Jack et al, 2018;Lomas et al, 2018) aimed at informing decision-making processes and future policies by means of robust and empirically grounded methods.…”

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Linking Design and Operation Phase Energy Performance Analysis Through Regression-Based Approaches

2020

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The reduction of energy usage and environmental impact of the built environment and construction industry is crucial for sustainability on a global scale. We are working towards an increased commitment towards resource efficiency in the built environment and to the growth of innovative businesses following circular economy principles. The conceptualization of change is a relevant part of energy and sustainability transitions research, which is aimed at enabling radical shifts compatible with societal functions. In this framework, building performance has to be considered in a whole life cycle perspective because buildings are long-term assets. In a life cycle perspective, both operational and embodied energy and carbon emissions have to be considered for appropriate comparability and decision-making. The application of sustainability assessments of products and practices in the built environment is itself a critical and debatable issue. For this reason, the way energy consumption data are measured, processed, and reported has to be progressively standardized in order to enable transparency and consistency of methods at multiple scales (from single buildings up to building stock) and levels of analysis (from individual components up to systems), ideally complementing ongoing research initiatives that use open science principles in energy research. In this paper, we analyse the topic of linking design and operation phase’s energy performance analysis through regression-based approaches in buildings, highlighting the hierarchical nature of building energy modelling data. The goal of this research is to review the current state of the art of in order to orient future efforts towards integrated data analysis workflows, from design to operation. In this sense, we show how data analysis techniques can be used to evaluate the impact of both technical and human factors. Finally, we indicate how approximated physical interpretation of regression models can help in developing data-driven models that could enhance the possibility of learning from feedback and reconstructing building stock data at multiple levels.

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“…The first step includes collection and prediction of input variables such as the number of inhabitants, using an infrared sensor, weather forecast, outdoor temperature, and solar radiation. Finally, the formulated nonlinear optimization problem with its user-definable weightings is solved using a genetic algorithm (GA) to estimate the optimal schedule for the next day, time-proportional integral (TPI) controllers, weather compensation and load compensation seek to improve the efficiency of the heating system based on Lomas et al [49]' study.…”

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Novel Techniques for Saving Energy Consumption in Air Conditioning Systems

Berry¹

2019

Proceedings of the 5th World Congress on Mechanical, Chemical, and Material Engineering

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Electrical energy consumption in air conditioning systems (ACS) is a sizeable portion of global electrical energy consumption. This means that it has a considerable share of global warming, which needs to be reduced. This article reviews the causes of excessive ACS energy consumption as well as modern trends in management and control of ACS energy consumption. Energy demand and consumption are high for air conditioning, especially in humid and hot weather. Opportunities for saving energy in cooling and heating systems depend mainly on reducing loads. Reducing the thermal loads can be achieved through new techniques Brief informational review of some of the most used ACS specifies cooling and heating loads and new techniques to reduce its energy consumption. Performance of ACSs for various types is mostly identified as the ratio of the active or beneficial output to the requisite total input of the equipment. The target to decrease the energy consumption of electrical systems is an essential step to define the components and equipment that are used to build the system and select the types that are considered as an energy saver. After ending this essential step we can concentrate on selecting and improving the overall system performance. Hence, this article provides review information of the most ACSs and specify its new techniques of energy consumption reduction.

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Do domestic heating controls save energy? A review of the evidence

Cited by 41 publications

References 52 publications

A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort

Linking Design and Operation Phase Energy Performance Analysis Through Regression-Based Approaches

Novel Techniques for Saving Energy Consumption in Air Conditioning Systems

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