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Influence of Population Income on Energy Consumption and CO 2 Emissions in Buildings of Cities

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  • Irene M. Zarco-Soto

    (Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain)

  • Fco. Javier Zarco-Soto

    (Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain)

  • Pedro J. Zarco-Periñán

    (Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain)

Abstract

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. A large part of the emissions and energy consumption corresponds to buildings, both in the residential sector and in the service sector. This means that a large part of the measures taken by governments to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are focused on this sector. With this background, this paper studies energy consumption in city buildings and the CO 2 emissions they produce. It only makes use of publicly available data. The analysis is made from the point of view of income per inhabitant, and the results are obtained per inhabitant and household. To facilitate the analysis of the results, an index has been defined. The main contributions of this work are to analyze energy consumption and emissions due to buildings, study them from the point of view of the income of their inhabitants, and consider cities individually. The proposed methodology has been applied to the case of Spain. A total of 145 Spanish cities that have more than 50,000 inhabitants have been studied. The results show that the higher the income, the higher the consumption and emissions. Electricity consumptions are almost inelastic, while those of thermal origin are greatly influenced by the level of income. Regarding CO 2 emissions, the percentage of emissions of electrical origin with respect to total emissions is higher than that of thermal origin. In addition, the lower the income, the higher the percentage of emissions of electrical origin.

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  • Irene M. Zarco-Soto & Fco. Javier Zarco-Soto & Pedro J. Zarco-Periñán, 2021. "Influence of Population Income on Energy Consumption and CO 2 Emissions in Buildings of Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(18), pages 1-18, September.
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