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Publications

Publications by Research Area

2016

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Jing Ke."Quantifying the potential impacts of China's power-sector policies on coal input and CO2 emissions through 2050: A bottom-up perspective."Utilities Policy 41 (2016) 128-138. DOI

Liu, Ping, Wei Feng, Chris Marnay, Spencer M. Dutton, Ming Jin, Lingwei Zheng, and Nan Zhou."Towards the Optimal Development of Low-Carbon Community Energy Systems."2016 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings (2016).

Ohshita, Stephanie, Cecilia Fino-Chen, Lixuan Hong, and Nina Khanna."BEST Cities: Software User Guide." (2016).

Hong, Lixuan, Nan Zhou, Wei Feng, Nina Khanna, David Fridley, Yongqiang Zhao, and Kaare Sandholt."Building stock dynamics and its impacts on materials and energy demand in China."Energy Policy 94 (2016) 47 - 55. DOI

Price, Lynn K., Nan Zhou, David Fridley, Stephanie Ohshita, Nina Khanna, Hongyou Lu, Lixuan Hong, Gang He, John Romankiewicz, and Hu Min."Low-Carbon City Policy Databook." (2016).

Khanna, Nina, Nan Zhou, David Fridley, and Michael A. McNeil."Prospective Evaluation of the Energy and CO₂ Emissions Impact of China’s 2010 – 2013 Efficiency Standards for Products." (2016).

Springer, Cecilia, and Ali Hasanbeigi."Emerging Energy Efficiency and Carbon Dioxide Emissions-Reduction Technologies for Industrial Production of Aluminum." (2016).

Lin, Jiang, Gang He, and Alexandria Yuan."Economic Rebalancing and Electricity Demand in China."The Electricity Journal 29.3 (2016) 48 - 54. DOI

Khanna, Nina, Jin Guo, and Xinyi Zheng."Effects of Demand Side Management on Chinese Household Electricity Consumption: Empirical Findings from Chinese Household Survey." (2016).

Zhang, Jingjing, Nan Zhou, Adam Hinge, Wei Feng, and Shicong Zhang."Governance strategies to achieve zero-energy buildings in China."Building Research & Information 44.5-6 (2016) 604-618. DOI

Feng, Wei, Chris Marnay, Nan Zhou, Yan Ding, and Zhaoxia Wang."Influence of Occupancy-oriented Interior Cooling Load on Building Cooling Load."Applied Thermal Engineering 96 (2016) 411-420. DOI

Lu, Hongyou, Lynn K. Price, and Qi Zhang."Capturing the invisible resource: Analysis of waste heat potential in Chinese industry."Applied Energy 161 (2016) 497 - 511. DOI

Hou, Jing, Yisheng Liu, Yong Wu, Nan Zhou, and Wei Feng."Comparative study of commercial building energy-efficiency retrofit policies in four pilot cities in China."Energy Policy 88 (2016) 204 - 215. DOI

Guo, Qiang, Yong Wu, Yan Ding, Wei Feng, and Neng Zhu."Measures to enforce mandatory civil building energy efficiency codes in China."Journal of Cleaner Production 119 (2016) 152 - 166. DOI

Hasanbeigi, Ali, Jose Carlos Rojas Cardenas, Lynn K. Price, Ryan Triolo, and Marlene Arens."Comparison of Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Intensity of the International Iron and Steel Industry: Case Studies from China, Germany, Mexico, and the United States." (2016) 1-36.

2015

Wetter, Michael, Marco Bonvini, and Thierry Stephane Nouidui."Equation-based languages – A new paradigm for building energy modeling, simulation and optimization."Energy and Buildings 117 (2015) 290-300. DOI

Cao, Meichun, Pablo J. Rosado, Zhaohui Lin, Ronnen M. Levinson, and Dev Millstein."Cool Roofs in Guangzhou, China: Outdoor Air Temperature Reductions during Heat Waves and Typical Summer Conditions."Environmental Science & Technology 49.24 (2015) 14672 - 14679. DOI

Zhao, Shanguo, Wei Feng, Shicong Zhang, Jing Hou, Nan Zhou, and Mark D. Levine."Energy Savings and Cost-benefit Analysis of the New Commercial Building Standard in China."Procedia Engineering 121 (2015) 317-324. DOI

Lee, Eleanor S., Christoph Gehbauer, Brian E. Coffey, Andrew McNeil, Michael Stadler, and Chris Marnay."Integrated control of dynamic facades and distributed energy resources for energy cost minimization in commercial buildings."Solar Energy 122 (2015) 1384–1397. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Chris Marnay, Tyler Shiqiao Yan, Gang He, Robert J Yinger, Josh Mauzey, Kevin Clampitt, and Han Zhu."Towards uniform benefit-cost analysis for smart grid projects: an example using the Smart Grid Computational Tool." (2015) 29 pages.

Can, Stephane de la Rue du, Lynn K. Price, and Timm Zwickel."Understanding the Full Climate Change Impact of Energy Consumption and Mitigation at the End-Use Level: a Proposed Methodology for Allocating Indirect Carbon Dioxide Emissions."Applied Energy 159 (2015) 548-559. DOI

Hong, Tianzhen, Cheng Li, and Da Yan."Updates to the China Design Standard for Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings."Energy Policy 87 (2015) 187-198. DOI

Yan, Da, William O'Brien, Tianzhen Hong, Xiaohang Feng, H. Burak Gunay, Farhang Tahmasebi, and Ardeshir Mahdavi."Occupant Behavior Modeling for Building Performance Simulation: Current State and Future Challenges."Energy and Buildings 107 (2015) 264-278. DOI

Lewis, Joanna I., David Fridley, Lynn K. Price, Hongyou Lu, and John Romankiewicz."Understanding China's non-fossil energy targets."Science 350.6264 (2015) 1034 - 1036. DOI