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

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  • Hamilton, Ian G.
  • Steadman, Philip J.
  • Bruhns, Harry
  • Summerfield, Alex J.
  • Lowe, Robert

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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.

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  • Hamilton, Ian G. & Steadman, Philip J. & Bruhns, Harry & Summerfield, Alex J. & Lowe, Robert, 2013. "Energy efficiency in the British housing stock: Energy demand and the Homes Energy Efficiency Database," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 60(C), pages 462-480.
  • Handle: RePEc:eee:enepol:v:60:y:2013:i:c:p:462-480
    DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.04.004
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