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With socioeconomic development, the consumption of natural gas heating has increased in regions characterized by hot summers and cold winters. To explore the characteristics of heating energy consumption in residential buildings, original natural-gas consumption data were obtained from residential households in Nan**g, China and a cluster analysis was conducted based on the level of energy consumption and residents’ reliance on heating. The findings indicate that (1) natural-gas heating users can be classified into three clusters: low heating energy consumption and low reliance on heating, medium heating energy consumption and high reliance on heating, and high heating energy consumption and high reliance on heating; (2) heating energy consumption is inversely related to air temperature and a high heating energy consumption is more sensitive to air temperature; and (3) the heating energy consumption is higher on non-working days compared to that for workdays, and low heating energy consumption during workdays strongly influences that on non-working days. These findings will act as reference for building engineers and urban planners to realize the demand characteristics of gas heating in urban settlements situated in hot summer–cold winter zones.
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Zhou, Y., Huang, X., Hu, Z. (2023). Energy Consumption Characteristics of Wall-Hanging Gas Boilers in Hot Summer–Cold Winter Zone of China. In: Gaber, H. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Clean Energy and Electrical Systems. CEES 2023. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 1058. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3888-9_25
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