STUDY ON THE ENERGY USE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDERLY RESIDENTS IN THE COLD AREA OF CHINA- USING OLD COMMUNITIES IN TIANJIN CITY AS EXAMPLE

摘要

As of Dec. 2017, the population of elderly people above 60 reached 240 million in China, which account for 17.3%of the total population. The elderly residents spend 19-22 hours per day at home on average, much longer than 10-12hours per day of the younger people. Therefore, the behaviors of elderly residents play an important role, especiallyin the residential building low-carbon/energy-saving field. In this study, the elderly residents in urban and suburbanareas of Tianjin were selected as survey objects, whose behaviour data of using heating, refrigeration, refrigeratorand television was tracked for a period of one year, in order to summarize the energy use behavior of elderly users,and to draw suggestions for energy-saving measures for elderly residents.