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Dvořák, Jan. "Procesy IS/ICT a jejich mapování ke standardům v oblasti IS/ICT." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-124773.
Full textStrachová, Zuzana. "Implementace nástroje pro řízení kybernetické bezpečnosti." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-444573.
Full textBarcos, Daniel. "Energy Survey : Energy Audit for ICA Maxi in Sandviken." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Technology and Built Environment, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4828.
Full textYong, Louisa Chung-Sze. "An Internet-based audio synthesis resource : a case study in Manchester and Salford." Thesis, University of Salford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365975.
Full textEdström, Erik, and Christoffer Gunnarsson. "Energikartläggning och energieffektiviseringav Sörbyskolans förskola : Simuleringar genomförda med IDA ICE 4.61." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-17607.
Full textToday’s society is very dependent on energy to function and to pursue development of renewable energy should have the highest priority. In 2013 81.6 % of the total produced energy in the world came from fossil fuels. The residential and service sector stands for 38 % of Sweden’s total energy use. Due to that fact it’s very important to have careful track of the energy performance of buildings and premises and what energy efficiencies can be applied. The school is located in south of Gävle and the property is owned and managed by Gavlefastigheter. In 2015 Gavlefastigheter is planning a renovation of the school and wants to develop energy efficiency proposals. The school is divided into six buildings which includes a dining hall, a gymnasium, a preschool and three other school buildings. In this rapport the preschool with appurtenant passage have been examined. The preschool and the passage is a one story building with an area of 883 m2. Particularly for the passage is that it’s heated with direct electricity. The survey have been conducted in a simulation program called IDA Indoor Climate and Energy. Boverket has set up guidelines and requirements for how much energy the newly built premises and residences may use depending on which climate zone the building is located. Gävleborg is located in climate zone II and premises in this climate zone may use a maximum of 100 kWh/m2 per year. A base model of the buildings current state were created to identify where the biggest energy losses occur. Afterwards the different energy efficiency proposals were compared with the base model to see how much energy could be saved. The base model were created by collecting data to IDA ICE. The data was collected by a physical inspection, interviews, comparison with another building on the school of Sörby etc. This work shows the distribution of supplied and xx energy in the building and what energy efficiency action that is most suitable to reduce the energy use. The result points to switching to new energy efficient windows gives the biggest savings in energy and a total of 19.8 kWh/m2, year can be saved. If all proposals is performed that will give a total saving of 37.8 kWh/m2, year. There have been a lot of assumptions and estimates to create the base model which makes it somewhat different from reality. To get a more correct model more physical examinations and measurements would be needed.
Abdalla, Mohamed Ahmed Fayad. "Energy Audit in Educational Buildings : Case study of Fridhemsskolan in Gävle." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-25191.
Full textEnglund, Marcus, and Moen Simon Sahlström. "Energikartläggning av Kv. Freden, Gävle : Simulering av åtgärder och dess energibesparingspotential med modellerings- och simuleringsprogram IDA ICE." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för bygg- energi- och miljöteknik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-20189.
Full textCarbon dioxide levels are increasing as a consequence of larger energy use worldwide. This has led to regulations and rules of emission and energy consumption. In order to stop global warming and reduce energy consumption, EU has agreed on four common goals to achieve by the year 2020, also known as the 20-20-20 goals. Sweden has also come up with its own environmental goals to achieve by the year 2020. They include increasing the share of renewable energy by at least 50 percent, improve the use of energy by at least 20 percent and increase the share of renewable energy in the transportation sector by at least 10 percent. Due to the laws and requirements related to stricter energy consumption and carbon emissions companies strive to use more energy efficient technology and more energyconscious behavior. Energy audit is an effective and an important tool in identifying and illustrating a company's energy usage for the clarification of future measures and improvement. The thesis aims to illustrate Kv. Freden's use of energy and come up with both economically and energy saving measures to reduce its and other similar building's energy consumption. Six questions have been used to determine the energy distribution in the building and find defects in the management and maintenance of the indoor climate and develop cost-effective solutions for the choice of measures. Five methods were chosen for approaching and answering the questions. A literature review was performed using keywords such as "Energy Saving", "Energy Audit" and "Behaviour" in online databases containing scientific articles. Thereafter an empirical analysis of the data supplied for the building was performed, which enabled modeling and simulation of the building in the program IDA ICE 4.6.1. A thermography and a qualitative survey regarding energy conscious behavior were performed as proof of assumptions. The ventilation in this thesis is found inadequate after applied methods. With simulated FTX-systems installed in the building, a maximum energy saving potential about 17 percent is achieved, which corresponds to a energy use of 97 kWh/m2. Excluding FTX, the simulated measures which prove to be the most profitable for the building is the sealing of doors and windows in order to reduce infiltration. These two measures are the most cost effective energy saving solutions regarding Kv. Freden and similar buildings. The building's simulated energy use is represented by 29 percent electricity and 71 percent of district heating usage, which compared with the energy data provided by Gävle Energi relates to a reliability equivalent to 97.5 percent and 96 percent. The simulation program IDA ICE proved to be an efficient tool for the simulation of a building's energy use and application of possible measures.
Bueno, Rosete Isabel. "Energy Audit of an industrial building in Sweden : Case study of a CNC processed components’ producer company." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27061.
Full textKuklo, Piotr. "The future of podcasting : Envisioning an audio stories community for listeners and creators, where they connect through similar interests and share inspiring content." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-149552.
Full textAlhalalat, Saleh Ismail. "Information flow in virtual organisations." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7757.
Full textTAKEDA, Kazuya, Takanori NISHINO, and Kenta NIWA. "Selective Listening Point Audio Based on Blind Signal Separation and Stereophonic Technology." Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/15055.
Full textMaggiore, Pierpaolo. "Energy retrofit of an office building in Stockholm: energy performance analysis of the cooling system." Thesis, KTH, Installations- och energisystem, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-190960.
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Nestorson, Linus. "Energikartläggning av Gårda 19:12." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137436.
Full textAs a result of the EU energy efficency directive, in 2014 the government decided about the law of energy audit in big companies. Since then, the speed of which companies does energy audits have greatly increased. This is a major step towards an energy neutral society. In 2014, the law on energy audits for large companies came into force and since then, energy audits have taken a good pace. With EKL, the dream of a emission-neutral future has come one step closer to realization. This report is one of many steps required to make the world a more healthy and future-proof place to live in for the current and future generations. The work with energy audits aims to provide an idea of the energy use of real estate and its potential for improvement. This energy audit deals with Gårda 19:12, an office property in Gothenburg, where municipal-owned company Higab stands as property manager. The energy audit deals with the energy intended for maintaining property functions, as this is what Higab can control. It does not cover business operations completely, but is covered briefly without more accurate analyzes as it is not of the client's interest. The focus is on support processes. The IDA ICE simulation program has been used to simulate the benefits of action proposals. The energy mapping of the property's energy use is based on actual measurements and system analyzes, measured or provided by property manager. The property was built in 1987 and has a low energy requirement as it is, and does during mild winters already meet the requirement for new constructions. Energy carriers to the property are district heating and electricity and will be divided into their application area in the report. With this energy audit, energy used for maintaining property functions has been surveyed to account for 77.6% of total energy usage, consumed by lighting, heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water and the use of lifts. The focus of the energy audit lies in identifying and analyzing energy users in the property and will result in several measures of varied sizes in investment and energy saving. Calculations and measurements show that the specific energy use for real estate operations is 47.5 kWh/m2 compared to 58.93 kWh/m2, which was the total energy use in 2016. The property is well optimized in many energy applications. After completion of the survey, lighting accounts for a significant part of energy use of more than 18 % of total property energy. For this reason, three of eight measures are aimed at reducing the building's energy use in lighting. Remaining measures covers ventilation, installation of solar panels (for electricity) and tap water.
Eklund, Malin, and Mariana Habib. "Energikartläggning av två skolor i Västerås : Undersökning av möjligheter till effektivare energianvändning på Rönnbyskolan och Rönnby förskola." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-36083.
Full textNetzell, Pontus. "SIMULERING AV SPECIFIK ENERGIANVÄNDNING FÖR ETT FIKTIVT ATTEFALLSHUS : En undersökning om ett generellt Attefallshus kan klara det nu gällande BBR-kravet för småhus." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-31959.
Full textEriksson, Johan. "Energieffektivisering av fastighet från 1930-talet : Utredning av energianvändningen och energieffektiviseringsåtgärder för Tången 2." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-25866.
Full textAndersson, David, and Philip Olsson. "Hur kan en skola med högre energianvändning än det svenska genomsnittet energieffektiviseras? : Energikartläggning." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Energisystem, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-24484.
Full textThe European Union as a whole is one of the largest energy users and has one of the world's largest greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce global warming, targets have been set to ensure that the average temperature on the earth does not increase more than 2 degrees since the pre-industrial time. Nearly 40% of Sweden's total energy use comes from the building and services sector which in context with that the 2020 targets approaching contributes to the increased need of higher energy efficiency of buildings. Energy audits is a tool for determining what has the greatest potential for saving energy before efficiency measures occurs. The thesis includes an energy audit of Trödje primary and middle school, administered by Gavlefastigheter. The study was performed using IDA Indoor Climate and Energy simulation tool. IDA ICE was used to modulate the existing building where all data for the school was included. The vision of the thesis is to investigate how much energy which is possible to save through energy saving measures and which action that is most effective. The potential energy saving in the school is high, the school uses 42.6 kWh/m2year more than the average for Gavlefastigheter schools, which corresponds to 21 %. The results show that the complexity of the school and the reconstruction, also called the paviljong, are a major factor in the high energy consumption. The school's energy use has a potential to decrease by 17 %, which did not correspond to the 25 % target set for the work. The work shows that the greatest savings potential exists through the exchange of windows and heat exchangers in the ventilation system, but also that the measures that are assumed to give the greatest savings are not always the most effective.
Vieira, Sandra Filipa Simões Fernandes. "Product quality and compliance in the pharmaceutical industry." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/15680.
Full textThis thesis aims to highlight the importance of a Product Quality & Compliance department in a Pharmaceutical Industry, on the good performance of company's activities and the achievement of their goals and mission. Despite the wide activities performed by this Department, the purpose of this work will be completed by describing only some of their reponsibilities. The tasks described are specifically the ones I have been performing throughout my professional experience at Bluepharma - Pharmaceutical Industry, SA, initiated in June 2012 in the Quality Assurance Department until today in the currently named Product Quality & Compliance department. This thesis is structured into 4 parts. The first chapter is an introduction to this thesis, and includes its context and objectives, followed by a brief overview of the state-of-the art in the pharmaceutical industry, including the market environment, the regulatory environment and quality requirements. A small presentation of the company and the department where were and still are developed my professional activity is also made in this chapter. In the following chapter are described the main tasks performed, the complementary activities and key skills acquired throughout this professional experience. A discussion and conclusion is presented at the end, including an analysis of the reported activities, main difficulties encountered its role and importance in the company performance as well as the skills acquired during this work experience.
A presente tese tem como principal objectivo realçar a importância do trabalho desenvolvido num departamento de Qualidade de Producto & Compliance numa Indústria Farmacêutica no bom desempenho das actividades da empresa e no cumprimento dos seus objetivos e missão. Apesar da actividade deste departamento ser muito vasta o objectivo deste trabalho será cumprido através da descrição de algumas das tarefas executadas no âmbito deste. As tarefas descritas são, mais concretamente, as desempenhadas ao longo da minha experiência profissional na Bluepharma - Indústria Farmacêutica, S.A., iniciada em Junho de 2012 no departamento de Garantia da Qualidade, tendo continuidade até aos dias de hoje no agora designado departamento de Qualidade do Produto e Compliance. Esta dissertação está estruturada em 4 partes. No primeiro capítulo é feita uma introdução ao presente trabalho, com a sua contextualização e objetivos, seguindo-se uma breve abordagem do estado-da-arte da indústria farmacêutica, nomeadamente do contexto de mercado, do ambiente regulamentar e dos requisitos de qualidade. Neste capítulo é ainda apresentada a empresa e o departamento onde tem vindo a ser desenvolvida a minha atividade profissional. No capítulo seguinte são descritas as tarefas e atividades principais desempenhadas, as atividades complementares e as principais competências adquiridas ao longo desta experiência profissional. No final é apresentada uma discussão e conclusão, incluindo uma análise das atividades desenvolvidas, principais dificuldades sentidas, do papel e relevância das tarefas desenvolvidas no contexto global da empresa bem como das competências adquiridas durante esta experiência profissional.
Ekfeldt, Jonas. "Om informationstekniskt bevis." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Juridiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-125286.
Full textBannani, Rouaissia Sabrina. "Pour une prise en charge des difficultés de la compréhension orale en FLE : cas des collégiens tunisiens issus des milieux défavorisés." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0466.
Full textThis research fits in the field of oral didactics and it aims to study the verbal interactions in the classes of Tunisian middle schools, for learners in difficulty, coming from underprivileged backgrounds.Despite of the efforts, invested by the teachers, and because they are individual and conceived anarchically, they are vain and the demotivation is of such a magnitude that it inhibits any act of learning however small it can be.Teachers are now aware of the need to develop the oral skill for these learners in difficulty, considering it as accessible but they sometimes forget that unlike the privileged areas, the majority of learners from underprivileged areas practice speaking a foreign language which they never use outside of school.What do the FFL methodologies tangibly offer, for teaching oral skills, taking into account students in difficulty?How to train students in oral comprehension and production skills, given the particular context of FFL classes in underprivileged areas?What support plan is proposed to prevent failure and to bring learners in difficulty to have objective and positive representations, vis-à-vis themselves, on one hand, the school alike learning in general, and French in particular on the other hand?In that way, we seek to determine which context can favor the emancipation of learners in difficulty by their speaking up in order to contribute to the oral didactics field and to propose some didactic paths that would make these learners active in the classroom, thus giving them the opportunity to prove their existence through participation, on one hand, and commitment to building the knowledge that is taught to them on the other hand
Hulbert, David Thomas. "An approach for the sustainability of ICT centres implemented by Technikon SA in Southern Africa." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26343.
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Walt, Samantha. "Communication at icg: the internal communication audit as an integrated measuring instrument." Diss., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1969.
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M.A. (specialisation in Organisational Communication Research and Practice)
Mopeli, Refiloe Keketso. "An audit of primary medical conditions in children admitted to paediatric intensive care unit of Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg academic hospital." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/23297.
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Lin, Yi-Tsen, and 林奕岑. "Improving audio recording for the visually impaired persons using ICT through user experience design and research processes." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54137568291943935980.
Full text國立臺灣科技大學
設計研究所
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The auditory sense is the primary channel for the visually impaired to experience the world around them. Typically they use various recording devices, such as tape recorders and digital voice recorders, to record what they'd like to keep. In recent years, touch-screen technology with dynamic interface and portability has become an alternative for visually impaired users. However, very few recording applications are tailored for their use. In this study, we interviewed twelve visually impaired people to investigate their behaviors and needs. Based upon the data gained therefrom, we have concluded design considerations and present HearMe, a touch-based application to assist the visually impaired for recording sounds during everyday life.
Lin, Cai-Bei, and 林財貝. "A Study on Content-based Audio Classification Using Probabilistic SVMs and ICA." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87349046616914289202.
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電機工程學系碩博士班
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Different kinds of sound have different properties in our life environment, and we can make out surroundings by recognizing and understanding these properties of environmental sounds. For example, when we hear the fire alarm sound, we can judge there must be fire happening. It will be a great help to us for monitoring surrounding environment if we can classify and identify in accordance with the sound information, especially for the deaf person and security system. Besides, as mentioned in the former article, large amount of information is recorded in files format of audio. Making use of audio classification will be contributive to us for searching the audio segment we want. In this thesis, we present a home environmental audio classifier based on support vector machine (SVM) and independent component analysis. We use independent component analysis to extract the audio feature. This technique can extract independent components based on statistical characteristics. The proposed audio features can be categorized as three sets. The first feature set is perceptual features which include total spectrum power, subband powers, brightness, bandwidth and pitch. The second feature set consists of MFCC and delta MFCC. The third feature set is the ICA-transformed MFCC feature. This is achieved by transforming the MFCC feature using ICA transform. The ICA transform is literately obtained based on all the training audio data. The audio classifier is designed using probabilistic SVMs. We collect an audio database contained 649 wav files of 15 classes. Experiments demonstrate the proposed sound classifier can achieve a 97.52% classification rate.
Hung, Ming-Jen, and 洪名人. "Music identification and retrieval using MPEG-7 audio signature descriptor with dimensionality reduction by ICA and factor analysis." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5c88r4.
Full text國立臺北科技大學
資訊工程系研究所
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The thesis studies the use of MPEG-7 audio descriptor as features for music retrieval system. Since the MPEG-7 audio descriptors representing a song contains a large number of data points, this thesis uses ICA (Independent Component Analysis) and FA(Factor Analysis) for dimension reduction to reduce the search time and to maintain a good recognition rate. In addition, we also test the indentification capabilities of the audio descriptors with speaker-mic recorded music and music with artifical noise. To be a retrieval system, we also propose a method to determine whether a piece of music is in the database or not.
Andersson, Jakob. "Energikartläggning av ”Kontoret” vid Dåvamyrans kraftvärmeverk : En energikartläggning utförd med IDA ICE för en modern kontorsbyggnad hos Umeå Energi." Thesis, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-119323.
Full textLagen om energikartläggning för stora företag antogs av Sveriges Riksdag år 2014 och innebär att företagen som är inräknade ska redovisa en representativ bild av sin energiförbrukning. Dessutom ska det lämnas in föreslag för att göra kostnadseffektiva åtgärder, som ska leda till en minskad energiförbrukning och effektivare användning av energi. Denna energikartläggning har gjorts enligt lagens riktlinjer och Energimyndighetens rekommendationer för energikartläggningar. Kartläggningen gjordes för kontorsbyggnaden vid Dåvamyrans kraftvärmevärk, som är Umeå Energis stora produktionsanläggning för fjärrvärme. År 2007 färdigställdes kontoret och ligger i anslutning till Dåva 1 via en tunell under jorden. Dåva 2 färdigställdes 2010 för att möta det ökade behovet av fjärrvärme i Umeå och för att minska andelen olja i Umeå Energis bränslemix. Den är en väldigt energieffektiv och miljöanpassad anläggning för produktion av fjärrvärme. Eftersom energisimuleringsprogrammet IDA ICE presterar mycket bra när det kommer till att uppskatta en byggnads verkliga energiförbrukning, kommer detta program att användas för energikartläggningen av byggnaden. Energikartläggningen avgränsar sig till att endast ta med energiförbrukningen inom byggnaden för uppvärmning, fjärrkyla, fastighetsel och verksamhetsel. Från kartläggningen exkluderas den yttre förbrukningen i form av belysning, motorvärmarstolpar och transporter som tillkommer i verksamheten. Mätningar gjordes under en vecka för elförbrukningen. Dessa användes sedan tillsammans med inventerade effekter för belysning, elektriska komponenter och antaganden för elförbrukningen för kontorsdelen till att uppskatta byggnadens totala behov av verksamhetsel. Inventeringar av ventilation och mätningar för temperaturer gjordes för att få uppvärmningsbehovet för modellen. Personnärvaro uppskattades också för att kunna simulera ett fjärrkylabehov där mätningar inte finns att tillgå. Modellen korrigerades grundligt för att matcha den uppskattade elföbrukningen och fjärrvärmeförbrukningen som hade mätts, normalårskorrigerats och korrigerats utifrån avgränsningar. Resultatet visade att byggnaden har ett totalt årligt energibehov på 157,5 [kWh/m2], varav 97 [kWh/m2] för fjärrvärme, 55,2 [kWh/m2] för elförbrukningen och 5,1 [kWh/m2] för fjärrkylan. Grundsimuleringen användes för att göra en energibalans för fjärrvärmen och simulera för olika förbättringsåtgärder som senare analyserades för enskild och sammanlagd påverkan på varandra. Som slutsats drogs att den åtgärd som gynnar både fjärrvärme, elförbrukning och fjärrkylaförbrukning, är en kombination för alla begränsade åtgärder som innefattar byte av led lampor, släckning av belysning och avstängning av datorer efter arbetstid, reducering av ventilationssystemets drifttider och reducering av temperaturen i byggnaden med en grad. Dessa sammanlagda åtgärder balanserar och påverkar varandra positivt och kan ge en potentiell besparing på mellan 27 000 och 37 000 [kr] per år beroende på varierande energipris för el och fjärrvärme. Andra praktiska åtgärder som framgår av metodavsnittet är att mätningar för tappvarmvatten, fjärrkyla och byggnadens elförbrukning borde införas eftersom sådana mätningar inte görs i nuläget. En injustering av ventilationsflöden borde också göras, detta eftersom avvikande flöden upptäcktes under mätningar. Sedan borde det undersökas hur aktiveringen av nattkyla fungerar under sommartid, att det ses till så att den är på, eftersom det skulle ge ett reducerat kylbehov för den varma perioden om den inte vore aktiverad. Nyckelord: Energikartläggning, Energieffektivisering Fjärrvärme, Elförbrukning, IDA ICE, Umeå Energi, Umeå
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