The Note reviews the Audit Commission's normalised performance indicator yardsticks for the assessment of the energy performance of local authority buildings against a national standard. Using empirical data, it is argued that the Commission's procedure does not take account of intraregional (as opposed to inter-regional) temperature variations, and a method for appropriate correction is detailed.
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