Fixing the American energy leak: The effectiveness of a whole-house switch for reducing standby power loss in U.S. residences

A Comprehensive Review of Residential Electricity Load Profile Models

“…Such appliances are PC monitors (when not turned off or being used), microwaves with digital clocks (when not used) and modems. These appliances form the base load of the load profile [93] and, because they are always On, cannot be identified using disaggregation or NILM analysis. The effects of various devices on the residential load profile as well as the base load (the constant consumption of ≈ 0.5 kW) can be seen in Figure 5.…”

Building physics into the social: Enhancing the policy impact of energy studies and energy social science research

“…Of the 5 articles that make more than 20 mentions, only 2 mention more than one unit. As a validation of this method, a brief assessment of these top 5 mentioning articles [28][29][30][31][32] indicated that at least 4 of them represent the sort of research that is suggested here is needed (this is explored further below). Only Fattori et al [31] potentially falls outside of this group due to its focus on modelling: since modelling rests on available data and since available data is almost entirely from the standard techno-economic approach, it seems reasonable to argue that first we need more studies with new kinds of data before generating new models which help explain any observed patterns.…”

“…Burgett's [32] analysis of the whole house switch utilises the large scale (somewhat) social and (mostly) technical Residential Energy Consumption Survey -and seeks to examine the role of a new technology introduced to affect routines of electricity use. He uses common units of energy analysis (kWh/year) as well as less-often deployed, but potentially more socio-technical energy intensity units such as kWh/sqft (square foot) -at least insofar as space is acknowledged, albeit treated uniformly without regard to the social uses of the spaces measured.…”