Journal
ENERGY
Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 1797-1801Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2010.12.034
Keywords
Energy management; Data envelopment analysis; Climate classification; Cluster analysis
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- Bureau of Energy
- Ministry of Economic Affairs
- Taiwan Green Productivity Foundation
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Traditional benchmarking of building energy performance usually starts by considering a wide range of different factors and giving these factors different weights to help reach one general indicator measuring a building's overall energy performance. For obtaining more specific information in building energy management performance, this paper proposes an adjustment to the traditional approach by using climate classification and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The study first adopts cluster analysis to classify the evaluated buildings into different climate clusters. Secondly, scale factors are identified by regression analysis. DEA is then employed to assess the energy management efficiency of the evaluated buildings. The samples of 122 office buildings in Taiwan in summer are classified into three climate clusters (warm and long rain hour, hot and middle rain hour, and hot and short rain hour). Research results indicate that the average indicators of energy management performance in each of the three climate clusters are 0.5, 0.56, and 0.56 respectively. The lower value indicator of energy management performance, resulted from the comparison between the energy consumption of the evaluated building and the minimum energy consumption among buildings in the same scale and similar climate conditions, indicates a more potential in energy saving. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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