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Potential Impact of Climate Change on Residential Energy Consumption in Dhaka City

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This study aimed to assess the impacts of climate change on residential energy consumption in Dhaka city of Bangladesh. The monthly electricity consumption data for the period 2011–2014 and long-term climate variables namely monthly rainfall and temperature records (1961–2010) were used in the study. An ensemble of six global circulation models (GCMs) of coupled model intercomparison project phase 5 (CMIP5) namely, BCCCSM1-1, CanESM2, MIROC5, MIROC-ESM, MIROC-ESM-CHEM, and NorESM1-M under four representative concentration pathway (RCP) scenarios were used to project future changes in rainfall and temperature. The regression models describing the relationship between historical energy consumption and climate variables were developed to project future changes in energy consumptions. The results revealed that daily energy consumption in Dhaka city increases in the range of 6.46–11.97 and 2.37–6.25 MkWh at 95% level of confidence for every increase of temperature by 1 °C and daily average rainfall by 1 mm, respectively. This study concluded that daily total residential energy demand and peak demand in Dhaka city can increase up to 5.9–15.6 and 5.1–16.7%, respectively, by the end of this century under different climate change scenarios.

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  1. Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310, Johor Bahru, Malaysia

    Mohammad Sabbir Ahmed Shourav, Shamsuddin Shahid, Bachan Singh & Morteza Mohsenipour

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea

    Eun-Sung Chung

  3. State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Nanjing, China

    Xiao-Jun Wang

  4. Research Center for Climate Change, Ministry of Water Resources, Nanjing, China

    Xiao-Jun Wang

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Shourav, M.S.A., Shahid, S., Singh, B. et al. Potential Impact of Climate Change on Residential Energy Consumption in Dhaka City. Environ Model Assess 23, 131–140 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10666-017-9571-5

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