Modelling UK domestic energy and carbon emissions: an agent-based approach

Sukumar Natarajan; Julian Padget; Liam Elliott

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.013

Modelling UK domestic energy and carbon emissions: an agent-based approach

Sukumar Natarajan, Julian Padget, Liam Elliott

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As the debate on policy responses to climate change gathers pace, there has been an increasing focus on tools to model national scale energy use and emission characteristics of UK dwellings. This paper reviews some existing models and highlights limitations of their common underlying methodologies. We argue that a radically different, integrated, approach is required to tackle these challenges and ensure that the modelling remain robust and able to meet future demands. We suggest that Agent Based Modelling (ABM) is a suitable candidate modelling paradigm to achieve an integrated modelling framework. We also present DECarb-ABM (an ABM based implementation of an existing model, DECarb) with many of the desired properties of such an integrated framework. The new model is validated against both the existing model and historical data.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2602-2612
Number of pages	11
Journal	Energy and Buildings
Volume	43
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.013
Publication status	Published - Oct 2011

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agent based modelling
stock models
residential energy
climate change

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