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The Human's Comfort Mystery : Supporting Energy Transition with Light-Color Dimmable Room Lighting

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Wenninger, Simon ; Wiethe, Christian:
The Human's Comfort Mystery : Supporting Energy Transition with Light-Color Dimmable Room Lighting.
In: Sustainability. Vol. 14 (2022) Issue 4 . - No. 2311.
ISSN 2071-1050
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042311

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Projektgruppe WI Nachhaltiges Energiemanagement & Mobilität
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The constant increase of intermittent renewable energies in the electricity grid complicates balancing supply and demand. Thus, research focuses on solutions in demand-side management using energy flexibility to resolve this problem. However, the interface between demand-side management and human behavior is often insufficiently addressed, although further potential could be leveraged here. This paper elaborates on the effect of light color on humans’ temperature and comfort perception in connection to energy flexibility. Researchers have found that people perceive blue light as colder and red light as warmer. To this end, we evaluate the effect of light color in a case study for a German industrial facility assuming sector-coupled electric heating. We simulate the entire heating period from October to April in an hourly granularity, using the well-established real options analysis and binomial trees as a decision support system to heuristically minimize energy expenditures by utilizing deferral options when energy prices are high. Our results show a 12.5% reduction in heating costs for sector-coupled electric heating, which extrapolated leads to CO2-eq emission savings of over 34,000 tons per year for the entire German industry, thereby supporting

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Item Type: Article in a journal
Refereed: Yes
Keywords: demand-side management; humans' comfort perception; light color; energy transition
Institutions of the University: Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management
Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Business Administration > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management > Professor Information Systems and Digital Energy Management - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker
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Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes
Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > Fraunhofer Project Group Business and Information Systems Engineering
Research Institutions > Affiliated Institutes > FIM Research Center Finance & Information Management
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Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics
Result of work at the UBT: Yes
DDC Subjects: 000 Computer Science, information, general works > 004 Computer science
300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
Date Deposited: 23 Mar 2022 08:43
Last Modified: 23 Mar 2022 08:43
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/68946