Heating degree day data applied to residential heating energy consumption.

Abstract

Correlations of regional total residential electrical consumption with airport heating degree days for about 40 000 dwelling units in an area of about 6500 km2 over an 11-year period indicate that temperature is a dominant cause of short-term usage fluctuations. A time series of national population-weighted heating degree day totals for the period 1898-1978 provides a scenario of possible variations of weather-related residential energy consumptions.- from Authors