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    Establishment of Electrical Energy Benchmarking Protocol for the Assessment of the Carbon Emissions in Hotel Industry
    (Springerlink.com, 2019) Babatunde, O.M.; Oluseyi, P.O.; Denwigwe, H.I.; Akin-Adeniyi, T.J.
    The hotel industry consumes quite a sizeable quantum of energy. The industry stakeholders contend with energy related challenges; this includes high cost of service provision as a fall out of electricity price as well as poor energy policy. More so, this industry remains an unattractive subsector to both the energy players and succeeding governments (in Nigeria). Due to the great importance of this industry to commerce, tourism and hospitality; it is thus necessary to conduct its energy performance analysis. This will indirectly provide a template for an efficient utilization of energy in the industry. Though there are no creditable national records on energy consumption in this industry in Nigeria, but a well-calibrated energy data treatment method is developed to establish an acceptable protocol using relevant statistical tools. These methods are tested on an empirically selected number of hotels which are actively involved in business activities in Lagos metropolis. The results obtained clearly established that a number of building parameters have a set of measurable influence on energy use, as well as carbon emission, in the hotels. To support this, it is discovered that the relationship between the total floor area (footprint) and number of employees has the highest influence on energy utilization in the hotels.
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    The Role of Demand-Side Management in Carbon Footprint Reduction in Modern Energy Services for Rural Health Clinic
    (Elsevier/ Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018) Babatunde, O.M.; Oluseyi, P.O.; Akinbulire, T.O.; Denwigwe, H.I.; Akin-Adeniyi, T.J.
    Because of globalization, industrialization, and development due to technology, the demand for electrical energy is on the increase. There is therefore a need for efficient energy measures to ensure conservation, thereby saving costs. Demand-side management (DSM) deals with conversion of energy demand of consumers into activities/programs/tactics (e.g. financial incentives and public awareness/education), which brings about less use of energy by the consumers. Gellings and Parmenter gave a history of DSM in the United States and its influence on energy resources. They also explained the role of DSM in integrated resource planning, the main elements of DSM programs and summarized the key best practices for program design and delivery. Palensky and Dietrich (2011) described DSM as using measures such as sophisticated real-time control of distributed energy resources, better materials, smart energy tariffs with incentives for certain consumption patterns to improve energy efficiency. Various types of DSM were analyzed, and an overview of modern DSM projects was given. Haney et al. (2010) highlighted how integrated government DSM policies, targeting residential demand for electricity and heat are more likely.