Fig. 2: Representative (TOP) and energy-limiting (BOTTOM) simulated household conditions: household conditions simulated using GridLAB-D over the year for a representative household and an energy-limiting household in a very cold climate. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 2: Representative (TOP) and energy-limiting (BOTTOM) simulated household conditions: household conditions simulated using GridLAB-D over the year for a representative household and an energy-limiting household in a very cold climate.

From: Rooftop solar and energy storage programs can remediate energy-limiting behaviors of energy insecure households in the United States

Fig. 2

Cool ON and Heat ON, or whether the cooling or heating system is operating, are both binary. To represent this visually, these data were scaled and skewed to be simultaneously visible at the bottom of each plot. A flat or zero line represents days on which the heating or cooling system was never called upon; spikes on the plot represent individual days in which the HVAC system was called upon at least once; and horizontal bars represent a set of sequential days where the HVAC system was called upon each day.

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