Fig. 6: The reduction in natural gas demand from turning down the thermostat by 1 °C in individual houses.
From: A global model of hourly space heating and cooling demand at multiple spatial scales
a, The change in daily gas demand over one year (2009–2010) in a randomly selected British house from the Energy Demand Research Project dataset37. Measured demand is represented by the solid blue line. Modelled demand with a 1 °C lower heating threshold is represented by the green line and the shaded green area beneath it. The saving is shown as the shaded blue area and the dotted blue line. b,c, Summaries of the gas saving across the whole population of houses with metered gas demand from that dataset, relative to total gas demand in each house (b) and in absolute terms (c). Bars show the frequency distribution of savings, and lines give the fits to a normal and log-normal distribution, respectively. See Supplementary Table 3 for a summary of the Energy Demand Research Project dataset.
