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Arnab Jana

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arXiv2025

Evaluating energy inefficiency in energy-poor households in India: A frontier analysis approach

Energy-poor households often compromise their thermal comfort and refrain from operating mechanical cooling devices to avoid high electricity bills. This is compounded by certain behavioral practices like retention of older, less efficient appliances, resulting in missed energy savings. Thus, the need to enhance efficiency becomes critical in these households. However, due to a lack of comprehensive data in India, little is understood about their electricity consumption patterns and usage efficiency. Estimating inefficiency and assessing its determinants is crucial for improving their quality of life. This study measures the inefficiency in electricity consumption due to household practices and appliances in social housing in Mumbai, India. It considers technological determinants in addition to socio-economic variables. The study employs primary data collected from rehabilitation housing and slums in Mumbai. Stochastic frontier analysis, a parametric approach, is applied to estimate indicators of electricity consumption and inefficiency. While household size and workforce participation significantly affect consumption behavior in rehabilitation housing, it is limited to the workforce in slums. The ownership of appliances, except for washing machines in slums, also exhibits considerable impacts. The mean efficiency scores of 83% and 91% for rehabilitation housing and slums, respectively, empirically quantify the potential savings achievable. Factors that positively influence inefficiency include the duration of operating refrigerators, washing machines, iron, and AC. These results hold implications for enhancing the uptake of efficient appliances in addition to accelerating energy efficiency retrofits in the region. Policies should focus on awareness and the development of appliance markets through incentives.

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arXiv2020

LULC classification methodology based on simple Convolutional Neural Network to map complex urban forms at finer scale: Evidence from Mumbai

The satellite imagery classification task is fundamental to spatial knowledge discovery. Several image classification methods are used to create standardized Land use and Land cover (LULC) maps, which facilitate research on spatial and ecological processes and human activities. Local Climate Zones (LCZ) classification maps are an example of standardized maps which have been widely used to demarcate the homogeneity in built and natural character in the cities. The LCZ classification scheme is primarily focused on urban climate-related research, in which 17 climate zones are mapped in a city area with the 100-150m spatial resolution. Each zone exhibits physical properties related to urban form and functions essential for thermal behavior studies. Extending this widely adopted approach to create LULC maps at finer resolution using the LCZ mapping scheme would benefit the allied domains of urban planning, transportation, and water resources management. This study proposes a novel solution to generate classification maps with a 10-band Sentinel-2B dataset and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) at the 10m spatial resolution. The classification benefits from CNNs property to preserve local structures in the image datasets. The proposed CNN model outperforms traditional machine learning models such as Artificial Neural Network, Random Forests, and Support Vector Machines. The overall accuracy and kappa statistic of the CNN model trained on 14 urban and natural classes are 82 percent and 0.81, respectively. The study also discusses the utility of the model for specialized remote sensing tasks such as change detection, identification of slum settlements, and mapping pervious/impervious layers in urban settlements with higher accuracy.

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