What is it about?
We identify clusters of cities with similar building stocks and characteristics for cities in England and Wales. Within these clusters, we provide benchmarks for the energy use per building floor area. We identify clusters with differing energy performance and suggest different interventions, from energy renovation (retrofit) to behavioural changes.
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Why is it important?
Buildings contribute a large amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and we urgently need to reduce emissions from energy use (both for heating and appliances) in the building stock. Our work provides local benchmarks for cities to compare their energy use per building square footage against a peer group with similar characteristics. Our method can target specific postcodes within cities, and identify the typologies of neighbourhoods that are under or over-performing from an energy efficiency perspective.
Perspectives
Writing this article brought together a huge amount of data about the UK building stock, and identified several areas with great potential for energy savings. If any local policy makers want to use our tool to identify areas of special interest, please get in touch.
Grace Colverd
University of Cambridge
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This page is a summary of: Benchmarking Domestic Energy Consumption using High-Resolution Neighbourhood Energy Data and City Clustering in the UK, October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3671127.3698183.
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