SR133 Energy use in NZ households - report on year 8 of the Household Energy End-Use Project (HEEP) (2007)

This is the 8th annual report on the Household Energy End-use Project (HEEP). HEEP is a multi-year, multi-discipline, New Zealand study that is monitoring all fuel types (electricity, natural gas, LPG, solid fuel, oil and solar used for water heating) and the services they provide (space temperature, hot water, cooking, lights, appliances, etc).

The report provides:

• a review of the importance of energy end-use data to New Zealand energy planning
• preliminary analysis of the emerging social data
• information on the use of LPG heaters
• an analysis of temperatures found in New Zealand homes
• a comparison of the space heating energy use with the ALF 3 programme
• a literature review of international demand-side energy models
• background details to the development of the HEERA model.

Data collection will be completed in 2005 when full data from 400 randomly selected houses will be available.