Energy Performance Contracting for Multi-family Residential Buildings in Latvia. First Steps

Rochas, Claudio; Zvaigznītis, Kristaps; Kamenders, Agris; Žogla, Gatis

doi:10.3846/enviro.2014.279

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“…This will help both the social and organizational problems as well as alleviate the legal burden.  Furthermore, arguments about benefits for the building as a community are much less effective before the renovation though as was seen in earlier research " Residents' understanding and perception of the impact of renovation of multifamily dwellings", once the renovation has been made in a manner satisfactory to owners, the community process continues to grow and as a community, further decision are made [3]. Therefore, to accomplish renovation of the building it is important to inform the residents in a form comprehensible to them about its defects and explain to them how each of the defects and elimination thereof may influence quality of life of the individual.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…The EPC provider or ESCO guarantees the level of energy savings and take over the technical and commercial risks as well as make the investments if the client has not access for funding. [2] Typical length of the EPC is five to ten years in Western Europe where little deferred maintenance needs to be addressed [3]. The EPC model may also used for building deep renovation because the owners may do not have the necessary knowledge to do the building renovation themselves.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This means enormous energy saving potential as it is possible to achieve on average 40-50 % savings compared with the baseline [3]. Until 2009, multi-family building renovations were done as part of a pilot-projects that were financed by residents themselves of by other countries (for example, Germany) -probably less than 300 [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The return of the investments of deep renovation project is longer than typical EPC and might be up to 20 years. This model is called an EPC+ model [3], [17].…”

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Climate Change and Buildings Energy Efficiency – the Key Role of Residents

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-Eastern Europe today is confronted with an unavoidable problem -the multifamily apartment building stock is deteriorating but apartment owners do not have sufficient access to resources be they organizational, financial, technical or legal. In addition, destructive myths have grown about the Soviet era buildings despite their continued resilience or the ex-GDR experience in the 90s with the same buildings. Further, without resources, decision making in residential apartments is seen as a major obstacle and used as an explanation why renovation has not taken place in Latvia. This is important not only in the context of a potential housing crisis but also because the renovation of the apartment buildings is an effective solution to significantly reduce the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. It has a proven potential to effectively finance the long term renovation of these buildings. This paper summarizes the first findings of a comprehensive and in-depth study of apartment buildings, their owners and the processes relating to renovation, combining social and environmental engineering research methods. It seeks to understand how owners of multi-family buildings in Eastern Europe understand their buildings and then to answer two questions -how to motivate owners to renovate their homes and increase energy efficiency and what business models should be used to implement economically viable and high quality projects.

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confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The return of the investments of deep renovation project is longer than typical EPC and might be up to 20 years. This model is called an EPC+ model [3], [17].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Climate Change and Buildings Energy Efficiency – the Key Role of Residents

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“…ESCO is a provider of the energy service in the form of EPC. The first steps of EPCs in the Latvian residential sector were discussed in a previous paper [6].…”

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Energy Efficiency in Multi-Family Residential Buildings in Latvia. Cost Benefit Analysis Comparing Different Business Models

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Energy Performance Contracts (EPCs) are very seldom used in the residential sector, especially for extensive renovations of multi-family or apartment buildings. Only up to 10 % of energy service companies' activities are targeted in the sector. A cost benefit analysis was carried out to compare different renovation business models. It was proved that EPCs can be applied for extensive renovations reducing the annual costs for residents and ensuring safe, comfortable and sustainable housing.

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