Economic feasibility of building retrofitting mitigation potentials: Climate change uncertainties for Swedish cities

Mata, Érika; Wanemark, Joel; Nik, Vahid M.; Kalagasidis, Angela Sasic

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.03.042

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“…The expression "CE" is thus used interchangeably as well, referring both to CO2 emissions and CO2 equivalent emissions, depending on the publication being discussed. [15] Building samples are representative for the analysed Swedish cities. Three CI values are calculated and applied, each representing the 'the average CI in Nordic countries' in a different historical year.…”

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“…The importance of CFs is further illustrated by the wide variety of applications across the literature. In many cases, CFs are used in the context of retrofit scenarios -in which the PE or CE of one or several buildings needs to be calculated before and after a number of measures are taken [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. In some of the other cases, CFs are used to assess the CE reduction potential of energy communities [9], to design control strategies for flexible electricity demand [22], and even to assess the benefits of electrifying offshore oil platforms [23].…”

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“…Moreover, a comprehensive assessment of building typologies under extreme conditions [25] to guide future building codes and standards [146] is necessary. These efforts must also include an understanding of adaptive capacity under extreme conditions [147], as well as economic feasibility [148,149] assessments of potential response factors. Advancing climate-ready decision making [150] will promote resilience processes and policies for buildings under climate change.…”

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An Overview of Climate Change and Building Energy: Performance, Responses and Uncertainties

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It is becoming increasingly crucial to develop methods and strategies to assess building performance under the changing climate and to yield a more sustainable and resilient design. However, the outputs of climate models have a coarse spatial and temporal resolution and cannot be used directly in building energy simulation tools. This paper reviews methods to develop fine spatial and temporal weather files that incorporate climate emissions scenarios by means of downscaling. An overview of the climate change impact on building energy performance is given, and potential adaptation and mitigation factors in response to the changing climate in the building sector are presented. Also, methods to reflect, propagate, and partition main sources of uncertainties in both weather files and buildings are summarized, and a sample approach to propagate the uncertainties is demonstrated.

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“…Across the academic literature, conversion factors are used in a variety of applications. Most frequently, they are used to evaluate various building renovation scenarios or design options for newly-built projects [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]. In these cases, the primary energy use and CO 2 emissions are calculated for certain renovation measures or building designs.…”

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CO2 Intensities and Primary Energy Factors in the Future European Electricity System

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The European Union strives for sharp reductions in both CO2 emissions as well as primary energy use. Electricity consuming technologies are becoming increasingly important in this context, due to the ongoing electrification of transport and heating services. To correctly evaluate these technologies, conversion factors are needed—namely CO2 intensities and primary energy factors (PEFs). However, this evaluation is hindered by the unavailability of a high-quality database of conversion factor values. Ideally, such a database has a broad geographical scope, a high temporal resolution and considers cross-country exchanges of electricity as well as future evolutions in the electricity mix. In this paper, a state-of-the-art unit commitment economic dispatch model of the European electricity system is developed and a flow-tracing technique is innovatively applied to future scenarios (2025–2040)—to generate such a database and make it publicly available. Important dynamics are revealed, including an overall decrease in conversion factor values as well as considerable temporal variability at both the seasonal and hourly level. Furthermore, the importance of taking into account imports and carefully considering the calculation methodology for PEFs are both confirmed. Future estimates of the CO2 emissions and primary energy use associated with individual electrical loads can be meaningfully improved by taking into account these dynamics.

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Economic feasibility of building retrofitting mitigation potentials: Climate change uncertainties for Swedish cities

Cited by 43 publications

References 79 publications

The use of primary energy factors and CO2 intensities for electricity in the European context - A systematic methodological review and critical evaluation of the contemporary literature

The use of primary energy factors and CO2 intensities for electricity in the European context - A systematic methodological review and critical evaluation of the contemporary literature

An Overview of Climate Change and Building Energy: Performance, Responses and Uncertainties

CO2 Intensities and Primary Energy Factors in the Future European Electricity System

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