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Perspectives on Near ZEB Renovation Projects for Residential Buildings: The Spanish Case

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  • Faustino Patiño-Cambeiro

    (Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Centro Universitário Univates, Rua Avelino Tallini 171, Lajeado/RS 95900-000, Brazil)

  • Julia Armesto

    (Mining Engineering School, University of Vigo, Campus as Lagoas Marcosende, Vigo 36310, Spain)

  • Faustino Patiño-Barbeito

    (Industrial Engineering School, University of Vigo, Rúa Conde de Torrecedeira 86, Vigo 36208, Spain)

  • Guillermo Bastos

    (Industrial Engineering School, University of Vigo, Rúa Conde de Torrecedeira 86, Vigo 36208, Spain)

Abstract

EU regulations are gradually moving towards policies that reduce energy consumption and its environmental impact. To reach this goal, improving energy efficiency in residential buildings is a key action line. The European Parliament adopted the Near Zero-Energy Building (nZEB) as the energy efficiency paradigm through Directive 2010/31/EU, but a common technical and legislative framework for energy renovations is yet to be established. In this paper, the nZEB definition by COHERENO was adopted to evaluate several energy renovation packages in a given building, which is also representative of the Spanish building stock. Global costs are calculated for all of them following EPBD prescriptions. Two economic scenarios are analysed: with entirely private funding and with the current public financial incentives, respectively. The results show the divergence between optimum solutions in terms of costs and of minimum CO 2 footprint and maximum energy saving. Moreover, in the absence of enough incentives, some inefficient renovations could achieve a global cost close to the optimal cost. The optimum solution both in terms of energy performance and global costs was carried out and described.

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  • Faustino Patiño-Cambeiro & Julia Armesto & Faustino Patiño-Barbeito & Guillermo Bastos, 2016. "Perspectives on Near ZEB Renovation Projects for Residential Buildings: The Spanish Case," Energies, MDPI, vol. 9(8), pages 1-16, August.
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