A Statistical study of the thermal performance of a group of 1478 houses on the Canadian prairies

Information about the natural gas and electricity consumption, size, age, and style of construction was obtained for 1,478 houses in the city of Regina. Slope- intercept relationships between natural gas consumption and electricity consumption versus heating degree-days were determined for each house. Calculations were made to find the variation of energy consumption with several house characteristics. The variation in the slopes of the natural gas consumption versus heating degree-days was also studied. Variations with house size, and within several groups of nominally identical houses, were found.On a recueilli des donn\ue9es sur la consommation de gaz naturel et d'\ue9lectricit\ue9, les dimensions, l'\ue2ge et le style de 1478 maisons situ\ue9es \ue0 R\ue9gina. On a \ue9galement \ue9tabli pour chaque maison, l'intersection de la pente des deux axes de la consommation de gaz et d'\ue9lectricit\ue9 et du nombre de degr\ue9s-jours de chauffage. Des calculs ont \ue9t\ue9 effectu\ue9s afin de mesurer les \ue9carts de consommation d'\ue9nergie pour diff\ue9rentes caract\ue9ristiques de maisons. Les variations dans les courbes repr\ue9sentant la consommation de gaz par rapport aux degr\ue9s-jours de chauffage ont \ue9galement \ue9t\ue9 analys\ue9es. On a constat\ue9 que ces variations \ue9taient fonction de la dimension des maisons et qu'elles se retrouvaient parmi plusieurs groupes de maisons apparemment identiques.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye