Private Hospital Energy Performance Benchmarking Using Energy Audit Data: An Italian Case Study

Dadi, Daniele; Introna, Vito; Santolamazza, Annalisa; Salvio, Marcello; Martini, Chiara; Pastura, Tiberio; Martini, Fabrizio

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“…Building and healthcare facility energy consumption rules are becoming more important in this setting. About 40% of the total energy used in the G7 nations is used to power buildings (Dadi et al 2022). As a result, it presents a significant chance to cut down on carbon dioxide emissions by decreasing the amount of energy needed to power buildings (Chang and Hu 2019).…”

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Prioritizing the indicators of energy performance management: a novel fuzzy decision-making approach for G7 service industries

Yüksel,

Eti,

Dinçer

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Ensuring energy performance management is important in many ways, such improvement of energy efficiency and decrease of energy costs are reduced. There are various indicators of the effectiveness of energy performance management of buildings. Due to this situation, businesses need to make the necessary improvements for the development of these factors. Nonetheless, these actions cause an increase in the costs of the companies. Hence, among these actions, the more important ones need to be identified. Owing to this issue, businesses can use their limited budgets for more priority indicators. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the main indicators of energy performance management systems. In this way, a new model is proposed to make a priority analysis for the hospitals. Firstly, five indicators of energy performance management systems are selected by considering ISO 50006 standards. Furthermore, these indicators are weighted by using Spherical fuzzy CRITIC. Secondly, G7 countries are examined with fuzzy RATGOS technique. Identification of the most significant indicators of the energy performance systems is an important novelty of this study. The most significant methodological novelty of this study is proposing a new technique to the literature named RATGOS. It is understood that energy efficiency is the most crucial indicator of energy performance management. Furthermore, it is also identified that France is the most successful G7 economy with respect to the energy performance management. Japan and United States have also high performance in this respect. It is recommended that necessary actions should be taken to increase energy efficiency. By conducting an energy audit, energy consumption data is analyzed so that energy losses and inefficiencies can be detected. This assessment provides opportunities for energy efficiency and hels identify improvement strategies.

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Prioritizing the indicators of energy performance management: a novel fuzzy decision-making approach for G7 service industries

Yüksel,

Eti,

Dinçer

et al. 2024

Environ. Res. Commun.

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“…The increased attention on energy efficiency, both at the national and international levels, has fostered the diffusion and development of specific energy consumption benchmarks for most relevant economic sectors. In this Special Issue, several articles examine energy consumption and the energy efficiency potential at sectoral level [1][2][3][4]. Energy audits (EAs) provide comprehensive information about the energy usage in a specific facility, identifying and quantifying cost-effective energy performance improvement actions (EPIAs).…”

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“…As far as studies at sectoral level are concerned, four single sectors are examined, one in the tertiary sector and three in the industrial sector [1,[3][4][5]. In the second group, the refining sector is analysed; it is peculiar due to its key role in energy production [5].…”

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“…Despite the high energy-consumption of hospitals and health structures, scientific literature lacks the presence of adequate energy-performance benchmarks, especially relative to the European context. Thus, Dadi et al [1] aimed to define energy-benchmark indicators for the Italian private healthcare sector. EnPIs are calculated by considering the global energy-consumption of the different sites, based on the methodology developed in [4], and the sector's relevant variables are also employed.…”

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Special Issue “Industry and Tertiary Sectors towards Clean Energy Transition”

Martini

Toro

2022

Energies

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The Special Issue “Industry and Tertiary Sectors towards Clean Energy Transition” is focused on technical, financial and policy-related aspects linked to the transition of industrial and services sectors towards energy saving and decarbonisation. These different aspects are interrelated, and as such, they have been analysed with an interdisciplinary approach combining economic and technical information. Collecting and analysing quantitative data would allow researchers to better understand the clean energy transition process, and how the international and national regulatory and policy framework are contributing to it. The papers within this Special Issue focus on energy efficiency and clean energy key technologies, renewable sources, energy management and monitoring systems, energy policies and regulations, and economic and financial aspects.

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“…For instance, Li et al (2021), employed three benchmarking modelling methods to analyse information on energy consumption and building features for a number of public hospitals in Shanghai; an approach suggested in cases of scarce data [16]. Studies where data was readily available also have dealt with benchmarking following different methodologies; for instance, an Italian case study used energy audit information and national standards to define indicators applicable to the private healthcare sector of Italy [17].…”

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Energy performance of healthcare facilities in 3 climatic zones in Cyprus

Serghides

Thravalou

Dimitriou

et al. 2022

Renew. Energy Environ. Sustain.

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Safeguarding affordable and energy-efficient medical services has emerged as a crucial necessity to sustain national healthcare systems, especially in view of the current pandemic. While a set of national standards and guidelines aim to set minimum energy requirements for the building facilities, more insight into the healthcare sector’s energy consumption in Cyprus is deemed necessary, since it is the 4th most energy-demanding sector per square meter in this country. This is the first extended research on energy consumption in healthcare facilities across the different climatic zones of Cyprus and the types of fuel favoured in each zone, which marks the novelty of this work. The findings of the study highlight that the coastal and inland climatic zones are the most energy-challenging regions, with more than 60% of the final energy needs covered by electricity. On the contrary, in the mountainous region, approximately 80% of the final energy needs are covered by oil and attributed mainly to heating purposes. The average national primary energy consumption of healthcare facilities was found to be 497 kWh/m2 in air-conditioned spaces. Therefore, this study highlights that the mean primary energy consumption per building surface is approximately 4 times higher than the national threshold for nZEBs; compelling critical consideration of intervention for their energy enhancement. Moreover, healthcare facilities in mountainous regions in Cyprus are heavily reliant on conventional fuel; an unreliable and highly polluting energy option. The work demonstrates the prominent challenge and high potential for energy retrofit of the examined facilities and their upgrading to nZEB-Hospitals, towards the endeavour to a climate-neutral energy transition.

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Private Hospital Energy Performance Benchmarking Using Energy Audit Data: An Italian Case Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Prioritizing the indicators of energy performance management: a novel fuzzy decision-making approach for G7 service industries

Prioritizing the indicators of energy performance management: a novel fuzzy decision-making approach for G7 service industries

Special Issue “Industry and Tertiary Sectors towards Clean Energy Transition”

Energy performance of healthcare facilities in 3 climatic zones in Cyprus

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