Modelling UK domestic energy and carbon emissions: an agent-based approach

Authored by Julian Padget, Sukumar Natarajan, Liam Elliott

Date Published: 2011-10

DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2011.05.013

Sponsors: No sponsors listed

Platforms: Repast

Model Documentation: Other Narrative

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Abstract

As the debate on policy responses to climate change gathers pace, there has been an increasing focus on tools to model national scale energy use and emission characteristics of UK dwellings. This paper reviews some existing models and highlights limitations of their common underlying methodologies. We argue that a radically different, integrated, approach is required to tackle these challenges and ensure that the modelling remain robust and able to meet future demands. We suggest that Agent Based Modelling (ABM) is a suitable candidate modelling paradigm to achieve an integrated modelling framework. We also present DECarb-ABM (an ABM based implementation of an existing model, DECarb) with many of the desired properties of such an integrated framework. The new model is validated against both the existing model and historical data. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Climate change Agent based modelling Residential energy Stock models