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Samiksha Tripath
National College of Ireland
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Free Access | Research Article | 21 November 2024
Enhancing Energy Performance in Irish Dwellings: A Machine Learning Approach to Retrofit Interventions
IECE Transactions on Social Statistics and Computing | Volume 1, Issue 4: 89-101, 2024 | DOI:10.62762/TSSC.2024.898106
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This research investigates the impact of retrofit interventions on the energy performance of domestic buildings in Ireland using predictive machine learning (ML) models. The study applies machine learning models to classify Building Energy Rating (BER) for dwellings in County Dublin Ireland. Keeping the focus on selecting features in a highly correlated dataset, the study predicts energy ratings with an accuracy of 69 percent. Light Gradient Boosting Machine Classifier is observed for best performance among twenty plus ML models applied for prediction. The study also performs retrofit experiments on dwelling features and evaluate their effectiveness towards improving the energy performance o... More >

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Enhancing Energy Performance in Irish Dwellings: A Machine Learning Approach to Retrofit Interventions