Determining the impact of regulatory policy on UK gas use using Bayesian analysis on publicly available data
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- 作者：Clifford A. Elwell ; clifford.elwell@ucl.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Phillip Biddulph ; Robert Lowe ; Tadj Oreszczyn
- 关键词：Energy use ; Bayesian ; Statistics ; Efficiency ; Boiler
- 刊名：Energy Policy
- 出版年：2015
- 出版时间：November 2015
- 年：2015
- 卷：86
- 期：Complete
- 页码：770-783
- 全文大小：1381 K
文摘
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We investigate the impact of a UK policy to require new boilers to be high efficiency.
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Theoretically informed models are developed and applied to national data.
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Bayesian analysis is used to find best fit parameters and compare model performance.
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The policy is prescriptive and simple to enforce; it improves stock boiler efficiency.
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Significant energy and carbon savings may be associated with this policy.