Evaluation of building energy efficiency investment options for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Krarti, Moncef; Dubey, Kankana; Howarth, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2017.05.084

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“…In contrast, Figure 7b clearly indicates that sites located in the Arabian Desert are extremely hot and thus require significant energy use to cool buildings compared to sites located in the Mediterranean region. In hot climates such as those in the GCC region, energy consumption for the building sector follows the climatic conditions since most of the buildings are air-conditioned as noted by analyses conducted by Krarti [11] and Krarti et al [12]. For Saudi Arabia, for instance, the monthly total electricity consumption closely follows the average ambient temperatures [12].…”

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Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Potential for the Building Sector in the Arab Region

Krarti

2019

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The paper overviews the current energy demand trends in the building sector for the Arab region using reported historical energy consumption. Moreover, the paper describes the current energy efficiency policies and regulations for all the Arab countries specific to both residential and commercial buildings. Finally, the paper evaluates potential benefits for large-scale energy efficiency programs specific to new and existing building stocks within the Arab region using a bottom-up analysis approach. The analysis of the available energy consumption for all the Arab countries has shown that the Arab region presents a significant variation in energy consumption levels between its sub-regions and countries. Indeed, the Arab region includes oil-producing countries such as Saudi Arabia with the largest energy use per capita in the World with over 9000 kWh/person of electricity used annually in buildings. However, the same region has the least developed countries such as Sudan and Yemen with the lowest energy use per capita in the World with barely 100 kWh/person/year of electrical consumption. The review of the existing regulations has indicated that several Arab countries have not implemented any energy efficiency codes and standards for building envelope, lighting, heating and cooling equipment, and appliances. A cost-effectiveness analysis has indicated that the Arab region can incur significant benefits in upgrading the energy efficiency of its new and existing buildings especially its households. Specifically, the adoption and the enforcement of stringent energy efficiency codes for new residential and commercial buildings can result in a reduction of 12.7 TWh/year in final annual energy consumption for the Arab region. Moreover, retrofit programs targeting existing buildings can save up to 470 TWh or a third of the building sector final energy consumption per year after 2030. Combining comprehensive energy efficiency requirements for new buildings and extensive retrofit programs for existing buildings would reduce the total final energy consumption of the building sector in the Arab region by 600 TWh by 2030 and by 900 TWh by 2050 if all the energy programs start to be implemented by 2020.

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Section: Climate Characteristicsmentioning

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Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Potential for the Building Sector in the Arab Region

Krarti

2019

Energies

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“…Earlier, Braun (2003) was closer in his representation, although the rationale used for the indoor temperature setpoints was cost-minimization. Recently, Krarti et al (2017) merged a building energy model with a cost-minimization component to assess energy efficiency investment options and indoor conditions for households in Saudi Arabia. While the dual problem of a utility-maximization problem is formulated as minimizing cost, the dual problem must contain the utility in the constraints (i.e., what is the minimum cost to achieve a certain level of satisfaction?).…”

Section: Past Studies On Price-based Electricity Demand Responsementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the dual problem of a utility-maximization problem is formulated as minimizing cost, the dual problem must contain the utility in the constraints (i.e., what is the minimum cost to achieve a certain level of satisfaction?). This utility constraint is not found in typical cost-minimization problems, and in fact, not contained in the algorithms applied by McKenna and Keane (2015), Yoon et al (2014), Braun (2003, and Krarti et al (2017).…”

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Households’ Demand Response to Changes in Electricity Prices: A Microeconomic-Physical Approach

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2019

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“…The attention given to the environmental impacts during the design allows the VELUXlab building to achieve a mean class in the overall environmental category 2, demonstrating that it is possible to optimize both embodied and operational energy impacts. Another study [29] aimed at the analysis of optimized designs for new buildings as well as different energy retrofit programs for existing buildings. They are considered in the bottom-up analysis using archetypical building energy models, located in five sites, representing a wide range of the climates in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).…”

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Interlinked Sustainability Aspects of Low-Rise Residential Family House Development in Slovakia

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This paper compares the sustainability aspects of three family houses according to the Slovak building environmental assessment system (BEAS). Various categories of family houses were evaluated, including site selection, project planning, building construction, indoor environment, energy performance, and water and waste management. Based on the results, Family Houses 3 and 2 are certified as BEAS SILVER, with scores of 2.46 and 2.01, respectively. Family House 1 is certified as BEAS BRONZE, with an overall score of 1.44. The results show, not only the importance of the site in terms of availability, connectivity to the network and the potential to use renewable energy sources, but also the importance of the design and construction of the building, including the application of environmentally friendly building materials, ensuring the quality of the indoor environment and the energy efficiency of the building. The aims of this study were to highlight the current trend in the design and construction of low-rise residential family houses in Slovakia and to identify gaps in the design and construction of key sustainability aspects through the existing building environmental assessment system. In the future, many low-rise residential family houses will be assessed to modify and validate BEAS.

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Evaluation of building energy efficiency investment options for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Cited by 121 publications

References 33 publications

Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Potential for the Building Sector in the Arab Region

Evaluation of Energy Efficiency Potential for the Building Sector in the Arab Region

Households’ Demand Response to Changes in Electricity Prices: A Microeconomic-Physical Approach

Interlinked Sustainability Aspects of Low-Rise Residential Family House Development in Slovakia

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