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Creating Domestic Building Thermal Performance Ratings Using Smart Meter Data

Buildings and Cities
Volume 1 (2020): Issue 1
By: Jenny Crawley,  Eoghan McKenna,  Virginia Gori and  Tadj Oreszczyn  
Open Access
|Mar 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.7 | Journal eISSN: 2632-6655
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 29, 2019
Accepted on: Jan 25, 2020
Published on: Mar 5, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
buildings,
energy data,
energy efficiency,
energy performance certificate,
energy rating,
smart meter,
thermal performance

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