Energy Seminar – TT25 Week 1: Grounding domestic energy models with empirical data
Tadj Oreszczyn, UCL Energy Institute
- Start  Tuesday 29 Apr 2025 5:00pm
- Finish Tuesday 29 Apr 2025 6:15pm
- Venue School of Geography & the Environment
- Postcode OX1 3AN
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THIS IS AN IN PERSON AND ONLINE EVENT
Summary: Domestic Energy Models have been used in the UK to energy rate buildings since the 1980’s. They have become a critical tool for policy makers, building regulations and helping homeowners decide what homes to purchase, rent and refurbish. Domestic energy models all need grounding in empirical data. The roll-out of smart meters has radically changed the accessibility of empirical data. This presentation reviews results from 13,000 homes where metered and modelled data with is compared.
Speaker: Tadj Oreszczyn FCIBSE, PhD, CEng is Professor of Energy and Environment at the UCL Energy Institute. Tadj was founding Director of the UCL Energy Institute and Principle Investigator of the Smart Energy Research Lab. He has, for 35 years, undertaken energy and building research with a particular focus around the performance gap between theory and practice and the unintended consequences (health, comfort, etc.) of building energy efficiency. His first degree was in Applied Physics followed by a PhD in Solar Energy.