Climate justice: air quality and transitions from solid fuel heating

Baborska-Narożny, Magdalena; Szulgowska-Zgrzywa, M.; Mokrzecka, Martyna; Chmielewska, Agnieszka; Fidorów-Kaprawy, Natalia; Stefanowicz, Ewelina; Piechurski, Krzysztof; Laska, Marta

doi:10.5334/bc.23

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“…Poland has the most acute ambient air pollution among EU member states due to the use of solid fuel [88]. The use of solid fuel (e.g.…”

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“…Because the transition to natural gas, geothermal heating, district heating, and other low carbon heating such as heat pumps and renewable energy will adversely affect the inhabitants already vulnerable to fuel poverty. Fuel poverty vulnerability for low-income households impedes the standardization committee to ban solid fuel due to the increased costs [88]. Financial support from the national government and EU to address this problem is needed to ensure the transition from solid-fuel heating to clean heating technologies.…”

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Energy efficiency in the polish residential building stock: A literature review

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“…Poland has the most acute ambient air pollution among EU member states due to the use of solid fuel [88]. The use of solid fuel (e.g.…”

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Section: To What Extent Are Advanced Building Envelope and Active Tec...mentioning

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Energy efficiency in the polish residential building stock: A literature review

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“…According to EEA the highest PM 2.5 concentrations were found in central and eastern Europe and northern Italy. For the central and western parts, the main reason for high PM 2.5 is the usage of solid fuels with older vehicle compared to other parts of Europe [46], besides using the solid fuels for heating as was found in Poland [47]. For the northern part of Italy, the high levels of PM 2.5 are due to the combination of a high density of anthropogenic emissions and meteorological conditions [46,48].…”

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Machine Learning-Based Approach Using Open Data to Estimate PM2.5 over Europe

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Air pollution is currently considered one of the most serious problems facing humans. Fine particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5) is a very harmful air pollutant that is linked with many diseases. In this study, we created a machine learning-based scheme to estimate PM2.5 using various open data such as satellite remote sensing, meteorological data, and land variables to increase the limited spatial coverage provided by ground-monitors. A space-time extremely randomised trees model was used to estimate PM2.5 concentrations over Europe, this model achieved good results with an out-of-sample cross-validated R2 of 0.69, RMSE of 5 μg/m3, and MAE of 3.3 μg/m3. The outcome of this study is a daily full coverage PM2.5 dataset with 1 km spatial resolution for the three-year period of 2018–2020. We found that air quality improved throughout the study period over all countries in Europe. In addition, we compared PM2.5 levels during the COVID-19 lockdown during the months March–June with the average of the previous 4 months and the following 4 months. We found that this lockdown had a positive effect on air quality in most parts of the study area except for the United Kingdom, Ireland, north of France, and south of Italy. This is the first study that depends only on open data and covers the whole of Europe with high spatial and temporal resolutions. The reconstructed dataset will be published under free and open license and can be used in future air quality studies.

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“…The inhabitants were able to maintain thermal comfort in the rooms without much effort. Indoor temperature is not only based on thermal comfort needs, but is also an indicator of problems related to energy poverty or the inability to provide adequate temperature [31]. In some of the apartments, the average interior temperature during the research period was about 16 • C, and the lowest recorded in the bathroom was 13 • C. This is mainly due to the heating characteristics of solid fuel stoves (A1-A4) and the most expensive electric-powered systems in Poland (A5-A7).…”

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Impact of Users’ Behavior and Real Weather Conditions on the Energy Consumption of Tenement Houses in Wroclaw, Poland: Energy Performance Gap Simulation Based on a Model Calibrated by Field Measurements

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This paper presents the results of measuring the final energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water (DHW) preparation and indoor conditions in 15 apartments located in pre-war tenement houses. The measurements were compared to the computed energy consumption. The calculations ware made based on the model calibrated by field measurements. The discrepancies between measurements and calculations were assessed using the energy performance gap (EPG). Calculations were made separately for energy for heating and for DHW preparation. Additionally, the results of EPG calculations for different levels of analysis are presented aiming at assessing the impact of weather, temperature in the surrounding zones and users’ behavior. Users’ behaviors influencing the size of the EPG were divided into typical (energy saving or excessive energy consumption) and forced (energy poverty, response to the apartment’s surroundings, technical limitations. The connection between the heating sources and the heating habits has been clearly observed in the research. The former (typical) behaviors were the origin of the energy gap in the apartments heated with natural gas and district heating. The latter (forced) were the origin of the gap in the apartments heated with mostly electricity and solid fuel (with one exception: one apartment that utilized the district heating).

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Climate justice: air quality and transitions from solid fuel heating

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Energy efficiency in the polish residential building stock: A literature review

Energy efficiency in the polish residential building stock: A literature review

Machine Learning-Based Approach Using Open Data to Estimate PM2.5 over Europe

Impact of Users’ Behavior and Real Weather Conditions on the Energy Consumption of Tenement Houses in Wroclaw, Poland: Energy Performance Gap Simulation Based on a Model Calibrated by Field Measurements

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