Alvaro Corral Naveda 12/10/2014

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I would like to know what is the best way to determine the final energy intensity in the residential sector, if there are not any statistical (census) information related to specific consumption, power, amount of devices, operating hours.

Also, I would like to know how disaggregated the residential sector (or any other sectors)need to be? in order to
get the same value of an energy balance.

Thank you very much for your time

Taylor Binnington 12/15/2014
 

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Hi Alvaro,

Without detailed, end-use demand data (necessary to conduct a 'bottom-up' analysis), you will need to construct a model which describes only the total consumption of fuels by households in a top-down fashion.

For this type of analysis, you will usually need to calculate the final energy intensity by dividing total energy consumed by some unit of activity - this could be number of households, population, household income, etc. LEAP then calculates the total residential energy demand by multiplying the final energy intensity with the activity level which you assign to the sector.

There is no 'correct' level of disaggregation to reproduce what is seen in an energy balance. The level of disaggregation you choose may depend on many things, including the categories which are used to represent the residential sector in your source data. Often in energy balances, residential/household energy demand is described using only a single line item (see, for example, the IEA balances).

Hope this helps,

Taylor

Alvaro Corral Naveda 12/18/2014
 

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Taylor,

Thank you very much for the info. It was very helpful.