IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rfa/setjnl/v6y2019i1p16-23.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions in an Academic Institution in Greece: Can It Become Carbon Neutral?

Author

Listed:
  • John Vourdoubas

Abstract

Investigation of energy consumption and carbon emissions in an Academic Institute located in Crete, Greece has been implemented. The possibility of using sustainable energy technologies for covering all its energy needs has been examined. It has been found that the main energy source used was electricity while renewable energies had a small share in the total energy mix. The specific energy consumption has been estimated at 164.96 KWh/m2 and the annual CO2 emissions at 110.64 kgCO2/m2. The combined use of solar thermal energy, solar photovoltaic energy and ground source heat pumps could cover all the annual energy requirements in the Academic Institute zeroing its net carbon emissions. These energy technologies are mature, reliable and commercially used while solar energy is abundant in Crete, Greece. Solar electricity can generate all the electricity required annually with net metering regulations. The investment cost of the required sustainable energy systems to zero the net carbon emissions has been calculated at 184.32 € per m2 of its covered surface. It is concluded that if some financial support in the energy investments will be offered then the Academic Institute would become carbon neutral.

Suggested Citation

  • John Vourdoubas, 2019. "Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions in an Academic Institution in Greece: Can It Become Carbon Neutral?," Studies in Engineering and Technology, Redfame publishing, vol. 6(1), pages 16-23, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:setjnl:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:16-23
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://redfame.com/journal/index.php/set/article/download/4013/4191
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://redfame.com/journal/index.php/set/article/view/4013
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rfa:setjnl:v:6:y:2019:i:1:p:16-23. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Redfame publishing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.