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Jose I. Bilbao

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Financial assessment tool to assist large energy consumers with energy contracting and clean energy options, as well as off-site renewables

Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with utility-scale renewable energy plants allow medium to large-scale electricity consumers to meet a proportion of their load demand using renewable electricity. This allows them to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while at the same time reducing their exposure to...
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Mainstreaming high performance commercial building HVAC – stage 3 report

This report presents a summary of the findings and activities of Stage 3 of the LCL-CRC research project RP 1033 “High Performance Commercial Building HVAC”.
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Impact of energy efficient pool pumps on peak demand, energy costs and carbon reduction: final report

A whole system approach was adopted to optimize a residential pool filtering system. This project presents for the first time, the experimental measurements of the pool water quality (i.e., the chemical concentrations) and all energy-consuming components when operating the filtering system at low flow conditions...
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Mainstreaming high performance commercial building HVAC – stage 2 report

This report presents a summary of the findings and activities of Stage 2 of the LCL-CRC research project RP 1033 “High Performance Commercial Building HVAC”.
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Household electricity load forecasting using historical smart meter data with clustering and classification techniques

The uptake of smart grid technologies and increasing deployment of smart meters have brought greater attention on the analysis of individual household electricity consumption. Within the smart grid framework, home and battery energy management systems are becoming important demand side management tools with various benefits...