Using billing and weather data to separate thermostat from insulation effects

Margaret F. Fels and Miriam L. Goldberg

Energy, 1984, vol. 9, issue 5, 439-445

Abstract: A simple methodology, which uses aggregate utility sales data to measure and decompose residential conservation trends, is demonstrated. The data base is the aggregate natural gas consumption of the nearly one million houses in New Jersey which use gas for heating. The conservation index resulting from the analysis is normalized annual consumption, which adjusts per-household consumption to typical weather conditions. To smooth erratic year-to-year changes, four-year composite analyses are moved forward in time over the period 1970–1982.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(84)90049-5

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