A comprehensive review of obstacles and drivers to building energy-saving technologies and their association with research themes, types of buildings, and geographic regions

Cristino, Talita Mariane; Lotufo, Francisco Antônio; Delinchant, Benoît; Würtz, Fréderic; Neto, Antonio Faria

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2020.110191

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“…In this vein, results of our research coincide with findings by T. Cristino et al [37], who pointed out a small number of researches with a deep taxonomy of obstacles (three and more groups) and proposed the taxonomy of six categories: Financial, Market, Technological, Professional, Political, and Behavioural, which is quite similar to ours in naming and essence. More importantly, these scientists also investigated to relations between the implementation of energy-saving measures in buildings and types of buildings and their geographical location.…”

Section: Obstacles and Riskssupporting

confidence: 91%

Identifying and Comparing Obstacles and Incentives for the Implementation of Energy Saving Projects in Eastern and Western European Countries: An Exploratory Study

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This comparison study of the implementation of energy-saving projects in buildings was conducted in order to consider the diversity of experiences between Western European countries, which have experience and expertise in this area, and those countries in Eastern Europe that are in the beginning stages. The goal of this paper is to analyze obstacles and incentives for investment in energy conservation in buildings by comparing European countries with a diverse landscape of institutional and economic developments, social-cultural values, and environmental framework conditions in order to understand if these differences are influencing the implementation of energy saving measures and how this can be used to overcome the existing obstacles. The study is based on survey results received from experts in Eastern and Western European countries. The main value of the research is that it offers an overview of the potentials and constraints (barriers) to energy efficiency in Europe, based on data from a sample of western and eastern European countries. Among the most important incentives that were implemented to stimulate energy-saving measures are costs savings and the need to meet regulatory requirements. The main obstacles that still restrict the number of already implemented projects in Europe are a lack of proper financial incentives and that many Eastern countries are still struggling to develop the market of Energy Saving Services (ESS) and to operate better energy waste control systems. The paper concludes with the successful incentives that were implemented to stimulate the energy-saving measures and the main obstacles that still restrict the number of already implemented projects in Europe. Additionally, a set of indicators related to the environmental friendliness and social significance of energy-saving measures was proposed for evaluation of the project results. These were used based on the fact that they may be measured and cater for comparisons. This paper can help improve policy-makers’ selections in order to improve economic instruments appropriate to energy-saving policy objectives and specific national contexts.

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Section: Obstacles and Riskssupporting

confidence: 91%

Identifying and Comparing Obstacles and Incentives for the Implementation of Energy Saving Projects in Eastern and Western European Countries: An Exploratory Study

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“…This difference in the perception of barriers as been detected also in [12], this time taking as actors the governmental authorities, building developers, architects, engineers, and PV manufacturers. These similarities may indicate that results in studies as the one presented in [6], might be useful to analyze the feasibility of a sustainable building project in developing countries. Nonetheless, further studies must be done to delimitate the scope of this kind of adaptations.…”

Section: Building Energy System: Barriers and Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Consequently, Durvey et al [6] present the six types of barriers that affect building energy-saving technologies, and as one of the more important appear the Governmental/ Political/ Regulatory barrier. The other five in decreasing order of importance are: Financial/ Economic, Cultural/ Social/ Behavioral, Professional/ Technical, Technological, and Market barriers.…”

Section: Building Energy System: Barriers and Opportunitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Energy System Design and Planning: The Universidad de Santander Case

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González

Contreras

2021

J. Sustainability Perspect.

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Renewable generation is gaining more thrust as the time passes, however, the growth rate of such production has been faster than the rate of the electrical grid modernization. This growth comes with great opportunities and challenges for building energy system (BES) design and planning. In this respect, this paper presents the experience and lessons learned from the design and planning of the BES of the “Universidad de Santander” (UDES) central campus. This BES renewable generation is composed of a rooftop PV system distributed across the campus buildings. The system started with 30 kWp of installed capacity (100 kWh/day on average) and now is ready to deliver near 300 kWh/day thanks to 70 kWp of extra capacity installed. In general, the implementation has been a success that now is being replied in other UDES’ campuses, and the decision taking involved highlighted the importance of a proper energy efficiency policy and electrical regulation analysis.

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“…Once the stock of old buildings far surpasses the stock of new buildings everywhere in the world, the only way to achieve the current energy-saving standards is by retrofitting them, which explains the growing interest of the scientific community in the BRF theme. The raising of the theme OCB can be explained because the scientific community has realised that the success of energy-efficient projects are significantly influenced by human factors [115,116].…”

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The Evolution of Knowledge and Trends within the Building Energy Efficiency Field of Knowledge

2022

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The building sector is responsible for 50% of worldwide energy consumption and 40% of CO2 emissions. Consequently, a lot of research on Building Energy Efficiency has been carried out over recent years, covering the most varied topics. While many of these themes are no longer of interest to the scientific community, others flourish. Thus, reading trends within a field of knowledge is wise since it allows resources to be directed towards the most promising topics. However, there is a paucity of research on trend analysis in this field. Therefore, this article aims to analyse the evolution of the Building Energy Efficiency field of knowledge, identifying the recurrent themes and pointing out their trends, supported by statistical methods. Such an analysis relied on more than 9000 authors’ keywords collected from 2000 articles from the Scopus database and classified into 30 topics/themes. A frequency distribution of these themes enabled us to distinguish those most published as well as those whose academic interest has cooled down. This field of knowledge has evolved over three distinct phases, throughout which, eight themes presented an upward trend. These findings can assist researchers in optimising time and resources, investigating the topics with growing interest, and possibilities for new contributions.

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A comprehensive review of obstacles and drivers to building energy-saving technologies and their association with research themes, types of buildings, and geographic regions

Cited by 58 publications

References 88 publications

Identifying and Comparing Obstacles and Incentives for the Implementation of Energy Saving Projects in Eastern and Western European Countries: An Exploratory Study

Identifying and Comparing Obstacles and Incentives for the Implementation of Energy Saving Projects in Eastern and Western European Countries: An Exploratory Study

Building Energy System Design and Planning: The Universidad de Santander Case

The Evolution of Knowledge and Trends within the Building Energy Efficiency Field of Knowledge

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