energy storagemeans, in the electricity system, deferring the final use of electricity to a moment later than when it was generated, or the conversion of electrical energy into a form of energy which can be stored, the storing of such energy, and the subsequent reconversion of such energy ...
Periods of occupancy are closely aligned with the office work schedule in Germany: Monday to Friday with a majority of occupants being present between 9:00 and 18:00. Weekends show almost no usage of the office spaces and therefore also no electricity consumption. Major public holidays, such as...
Weekends show almost no usage of the office spaces and therefore also no electricity consumption. Major public holidays, such as Christmas and New Year, also show minimal presence in the building, as well as personal vacation days taken by occupants individually. This includes business trips, sick...
As illustrated in Figure 1a, a multi-regional whole-energy system approach induces the need to consider several time-dependent attributes for each region: electricity demand, heating demand, cooling demand, mobility demand and weather-dependent RES (i.e., 7 resources per cell in this model). Ea...
Using DesignBuilder software v.6.1.6.11 (based on the EnergyPlus engine), it was possible to compare energy consumption between standard, statistical (customized) profiles and the energy consumption indicated by the surveys, validated by the electricity bill. For the simulation of the different profile...
11 × 2 + (8 × 0.7+ 3 × 0.3) × 5 = 54.5 kWh/day Or, 54.5 × 312 = 17,004 kWh/year By rounding off the annual electricity consumption to about 19 MWh, the estimated electricity consumption would be as small as 11.9% of the combustion heat released annually in the wood-fi...
The energy optimisation model that is presented in this paper targets only residential usage. However, the model can be improved or implemented into residential communities—districts—to increase and sustain efficiency by controlling more than one residential electricity customer. As this paper shows, ...
• The energy optimisation model that is presented in this paper targets only residen- tial usage. However, the model can be improved or implemented into residential communities—districts—to increase and sustain efficiency by controlling more than one residential electricity customer. As this paper...
Table 4. Equipment type using natural gas, coal, LPG and electricity. In terms of the equipment, the following three types are almost equally used by each facility (without counting the frequency of their usage): wok/frying pan/fryer (75 responses), grill (74 responses) and oven (62 res...
Electric Ireland and the Environmental Protection Agency provided the data used to calculate the financial and environmental costs of electricity production in Ireland [24,78]. 2.3. Determining the Energy Usage of Irish Data Centres The available data on energy use in Irish data centres [73,74] ...