Impact of the new Saudi energy conservation code on Saudi Arabia residential buildings

Alardhi, Abdullah A.; Alaboodi, Abdulaziz S.; Almasri, Radwan A.

doi:10.1080/14484846.2020.1802919

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“…It is clear from Figure 8 that there is a big difference in annual electrical energy consumption from zone to zone and from thermal insulation scenarios to others. The annual electrical energy consumption of the building base case was 67,095; 57,373; and 26,799 kWh in Riyadh, Hail, and Abha, respectively [26]. For Riyadh, where the EUI value ranged from 100 to 162 kWh/(m 2 year), it is found that the results fall within the range that was obtained for many researchers previously.…”

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“…The investments here are economics with a payback of fewer than 2.0 years and suggested future practical studies in this field. Alardhi et al [26] concluded that the annual electrical energy intake without thermal insulation in zones 1, 2, and 3 was 67,095; 57,373; and 26,799 kWh, respectively. The authors also obtained that EUI for 144.1 kWh/(m 2 year), 133.9 kWh/(m 2 year), and 128.2 kWh/(m 2 year) in zones 1, 2, and 3 respectively.…”

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“…Specific design consideration for building construction for the base case villa[26]. The total heat transfer coefficient for walls, roof, doors, and windows[6,26].…”

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The demand for air conditioning is increasing day by day in the world’s hot and humid climate areas. Energy conversation in buildings can play a vital role in meeting this high cooling demand. This paper attempts to consider the impacts of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures on the energy demand of Saudi Arabia’s residential buildings. The energy analysis and economic feasibility analysis of thermal insulations are performed in this paper by investigating the effect of residential buildings’ thermal insulations on the economic feasibility of grid-connected photovoltaic systems. This was the combined effort of building owners and government, and buildings were examined if a photovoltaic system and thermal insulation were used. The study was conducted in the three climate zones in Saudi Arabia. The results showed that the building base case’s annual electrical energy consumption in Riyadh city was 67,095 kWh, Hail 57,373 kWh, and Abha 26,799 kWh. For the basic case-building in Riyadh, 69% of the total electrical energy was used for cooling and heating. Applying the Saudi Building Code requirement for Riyadh will provide only 18% of the total energy used for cooling and heating. RETScreen 6.1 software was used to design a photovoltaic system; the analysis was done using technical and economic indicators. The annual yield factor for Riyadh, Hail, and Abha was 1649 kWh/kWp/year, 1711 kWh/kWp/year, and 1765 kWh/kWp/year, respectively. The capacity factors for Riyadh, Hail, and Abha were 18.8%, s19.5%, and 20.1%, respectively. The Unified photovoltaic Levelized energy costs were 0.031, 0.030, and 0.029 $/kWh for Riyadh, Hail, and Abha, respectively. Finally, the Net Present Value and greenhouse gas emissions reduction have been estimated.

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“…The root cause of this problem is the subsidized electricity tariffs, high growth rate of population and building, use of outdated building construction material, and lack of policies/codes/incentives to develop energy efficient buildings. As this oil-driven electricity generation has an adverse impact on the environment, the KSA has set the target to abate the carbon emission up to 130 million tons by 2030 [41]. Abatement of building energy consumption is thus utmost important to reach this goal.…”

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Buildings consume considerable amount of energy to maintain comfortable interior. By allowing daylight, visual comfort inside a building is possible which can enhance the occupant’s health, mood and cognitive performance. However, traditional highly transparent windows should be replaced with semitransparent type window to attain a comfortable daylight inside a building. Evaluation of visual comfort includes both daylight glare and colour comfort analysis. Building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) type windows are promising systems and can possess a range of semitransparent levels depending on the type of PV used. In this work, the semitransparent Perovskite BIPV windows was investigated by employing daylight glare analysis for an office building located in Riyadh, KSA and three wavelength dependent transmission spectra for colour comfort analysis. The results showed that the transmissions range between 50–70% was optimum for the comfortable daylight for south facing vertical pane BPV-windows. However, excellent colour comfort was attained for the transmission range of 90% which provided glare issues. Colour comfort for 20% transparent Perovskite was compared with contemporary other type of PV which clearly indicated that wavelength dependent transmittance is stronger over single value transmittance.

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“…At present, because of the higher building energy consumption [36,37], powering buildings from PV is gaining importance. Imam et al [38] investigated a grid-connected PV for building and from techno economic analysis it was found that 12.25 kW is the minimum requirement for a typical Saudi apartment.…”

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Impact of the new Saudi energy conservation code on Saudi Arabia residential buildings

Cited by 19 publications

References 32 publications

Investigating the Impact of Integration the Saudi Code of Energy Conservation with the Solar PV Systems in Residential Buildings

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Performance Analysis of Photovoltaic Integrated Shading Devices (PVSDs) and Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic (STPV) Devices Retrofitted to a Prototype Office Building in a Hot Desert Climate

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