Multi-criteria analysis of heating sector sustainability in selected North European countries

Siksnelyte-Butkiene, Indre; Štreimikienė, Dalia; Baležentis, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2021.102826

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“…While short term heat load numerical prediction can be carried out using available statistic data [24], the current study is focused on long-term planning, where goals of national and EU energy policy and different socio-economic factors are taken into account. Planning of DH systems can be performed with different techniques, which are broadly presented in scientific literature [25][26][27].…”

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confidence: 99%

Environmental Impact of District Heating System Retrofitting

2021

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Retrofitting of district heating systems is a comprehensive process which covers all stages of district heating (DH) systems: production, distribution and consumption. This study quantitatively shows the effect of retrofitting measures and represents strengths and weaknesses of different development scenarios. Improvements in production units show improvements in fuel use efficiency and thus indirectly reduce CO2 emissions due to unburned fuel. For this purpose, validated district planning tools have been used. Tool uses mathematical model for calculation and evaluation of all three main components of the DH system. For the quantitative evaluation, nine efficiency and balance indicators were used. For each indicator, recommended boundary values were proposed. In total, six simulation scenarios were simulated, and the last scenario have shown significant reduction in CO2 emissions by 40% (from 3376 to 2000 t CO2 compared to the actual state), while share of biomass has reached 47%.

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Environmental Impact of District Heating System Retrofitting

2021

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“…As a result, practitioners and decision-makers have rarely incorporated social factors into the planning and design stages of real-world projects (Hashempour et al, 2020;Pombo et al, 2016). Fuel poverty alleviation is one example of a matter of social sustainability that is often overlooked at the early stages of building projects (Siksnelyte-Butkiene et al, 2021).…”

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Bringing fuel poverty forward from post-intervention evaluations to design and decision-making stages

Abbasi¹,

Abdullah²,

Ahmad³

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“…Many studies have carried out a comparative assessment of the sustainability of the heating sector at the national level, in some countries [50], highlighting the important contribution of energy consumption from renewable sources, to achieve the EU objectives [51]. At the same time, some authors consider that buildings contribute, with over 30% of the global final energy consumption, which implies the necessity for the rapid penetration of renewable energy technologies in this sector [52][53][54][55].…”

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Evolution and Forecasting of the Renewable Energy Consumption in the Frame of Sustainable Development: EU vs. Romania

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This article is part of the concerns generated by the need to increase the consumption of renewable energy, so that in the European Union (EU) countries, its share in the final energy consumption, to reach 32% by 2030, increases. In the context in which, in the specialized literature, the analysis of renewable energy consumption by activity sectors is approached very little, such an analysis has high utility. The variables of interest are the share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption, and the share of renewable energy sources in the final energy consumption in transport, electricity, and heating and cooling. The study performs a comparative analysis of the evolution of these indicators for the period 2004–2019 for Romania and the EU, an empirical estimate of the evolution of indicators using time regression and autoregressive models, a forecast of the share of renewable energy consumption in the final energy consumption and by the main sectors (transport, electricity, and heating and cooling) for the 2030 horizon, providing appropriate scenarios for achieving the EU established goals, as well as an analysis of the interdependence between the indicators. Through the results obtained, the paper can contribute to improving the framework for the sustainable development of energy consumption.

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Multi-criteria analysis of heating sector sustainability in selected North European countries

Cited by 24 publications

References 62 publications

Environmental Impact of District Heating System Retrofitting

Environmental Impact of District Heating System Retrofitting

Bringing fuel poverty forward from post-intervention evaluations to design and decision-making stages

Evolution and Forecasting of the Renewable Energy Consumption in the Frame of Sustainable Development: EU vs. Romania

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