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- Title
Temporal Segmentation for the Estimation and Benchmarking of Heating and Cooling Energy in Commercial Buildings in Seoul, South Korea.
- Authors
Ahn, Ki Uhn; Kim, Deuk-Woo; Lee, Seung-Eon; Chae, Chang-U; Cho, Hyun Mi
- Abstract
The building sector is responsible for more than one-third of total global energy consumption; hence, increasingly efficient energy use in this sector will contribute to achieving carbon neutrality. Most existing building-energy-benchmarking methods evaluate building energy performance based on total energy use intensity; however, energy usage in buildings varies with the seasons, and as such, this approach renders the evaluation of cooling and heating energy difficult. In this study, an information gain-based temporal segmentation (IGTS) method was used to identify the seasonal transition times based on patterns of hourly weather and corresponding building energy use. Twelve commercial buildings were considered for the study and four seasons were identified using IGTS; base-load, cooling energy, and heating energy data were gathered. For the 12 buildings, the estimated and measured heating and cooling energy during the summer and winter periods showed a linear relationship (R2 = 0.976), and the average of those differences was 9.07 kWh/m2. In addition, differences in the benchmarking results based on these energies were marginal. The results indicated that the IGTS approach can be effectively used for determining the actual heating and cooling energy consumption in buildings, as well as for energy benchmarking. This can, in turn, improve building energy use, with positive implications for achieving carbon neutrality.
- Subjects
SEOUL (Korea); COMMERCIAL buildings; ENERGY consumption of buildings; CARBON offsetting; ENERGY consumption; BUILDING performance; ENERGY industries
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 17, p11095
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su141711095