Energy efficiency in the British housing stock: Energy demand and the Homes Energy Efficiency Database

By I. Hamilton, P. Steadman, H. Bruhns, A. Summerfield, R. Lowe. 2013

130 citations recorded by the source corpus.

The UK Government has unveiled an ambitious retrofit programme that seeks significant improvement to the energy efficiency of the housing stock. High quality data on the energy efficiency of buildings and their related energy demand is critical to supporting and targeting investment in energy efficiency. Using existing home improvement programmes over the past 15 years, the UK Government has brought together data on energy efficiency retrofits in approximately 13 million homes into the Homes Energy Efficiency Database (HEED), along with annual metered gas and electricity use for the period of 2004–2007.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Building and Construction

1. Tim Schwanen
2. Benjamin Sovacool
3. Alba Fuertes
4. S. Sorrell
5. Rory Jones
6. K. Lomas
7. J. Schleich

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Benjamin Sovacool
2. Kirsten E. H. Jenkins
3. S. Sorrell
4. Tim Schwanen
5. Frank W. Geels
6. Alba Fuertes
7. Rory Jones
8. K. Lomas

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• Determinants of high electrical energy demand in UK homes: Socio-economic and dwelling characteristics (2015, background): “Some studies have however previously observed a significantly higher consumption in privately owned houses [16,17,22,27].”