Demand-side characterisation of the smart city for energy modelling. ; Energy Procedia ; Sustainability in Energy and Buildings

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PUBLISHED ; Cardiff ; This paper presents a new methodology for characterising the energy performance of buildings suitable for city-scale, top-down energy modelling. Building properties that have the greatest impact on simulated energy performance were identified via a review of sensitivity analysis studies. The methodology greatly simplifies the description of a building to decrease labour and simulation processing overheads. The methodology will be used in the EU FP7 INDICATE project which aims to create a master-planning tool that uses dynamic simulation to facilitate the design of sustainable, energy efficient smart cities. ; This work was conducted as part of the INDICATE project under the European Union?s 7th Framework Programme for research under grant number 608775