Improved governance for energy efficiency in housing

Visscher, Henk; Meijer, F.M.; Majcen, Daša; Itard, Laure

doi:10.1080/09613218.2016.1180808

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“…The presence of the performance gap has been demonstrated consistently in existing, newly built and recently retrofitted dwellings, including projects where energy performance was highlighted as an important factor (Gupta et al, 2015;Johnston et al, 2016). Given the existence of this performance gap, it is unlikely that further tightening of regulations based upon as-designed targets will have the desired effect (Visscher, Meijer, Majcen, & Itard, 2016).…”

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First evidence for the reliability of building co-heating tests

Jack

Loveday

Allinson

et al. 2017

Building Research & Information

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This paper provides powerful evidence empirically demonstrating for the first time the reliability of the co-heating test. The test is widely used throughout Europe to measure the total heat transfer through the fabric of buildings and to calculate the heat-transfer coefficient (HTC; units W/K). A reliable test is essential to address the 'performance gap', where in-use energy performance is consistently, and often substantially, poorer than predicted. The co-heating test could meet this need, but its reliability requires confirmation. Seven teams independently conducted co-heating tests on the same detached house near Watford, UK. Despite differences in the weather and in the experimental and analytical approaches, the teams' final reported HTC measurements were within ±10% of the mean. With further standardization it is likely to be possible to improve upon this reproducibility. Furthermore, uncertainty analysis based upon a 95% confidence interval resulted in an estimated uncertainty in HTC measurements of ±8%. This research addresses persistent doubts about the reliability of the co-heating test. Avenues to further improvement of the test are discussed. This work helps to enable the test's wider adoption as a component of the regulatory process and thus improvements to standards of house construction.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

First evidence for the reliability of building co-heating tests

Jack

Loveday

Allinson

et al. 2017

Building Research & Information

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“…It is mostly with regard to this last category, non-profit (or social) housing that various kinds of regional governance solutions have emerged, beyond uniform national policy goals and adaptations thereof at the regional and local levels. These have not prominently featured in earlier work focusing on energy-efficient building in the Netherlands [25][26][27], and thus demand our attention.…”

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The Regional Governance of Energy-Neutral Housing: Toward a Framework for Analysis

Leeuw

Groenleer

2018

Sustainability

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Regions are expected to play a key role in realizing international, European, and national climate and energy goals. Also regions in the Netherlands are working toward these goals, taking initiatives toward an energy-neutral built environment by 2050. However, it remains unclear how such efforts and other socially innovative activities can best be described and how variation between them in terms of governance can be explained. In this article, we develop a framework for analyzing the governance of regional energy-neutral housing initiatives. We ask what factors shape regional climate and energy governance, particularly regional efforts to increase the efficiency of urban dwellings. We answer this question using a subnational comparative method and a most similar case design, focusing on three Dutch regions: Utrecht, Noord-Brabant and Drenthe. Based on document analysis and 24 semi-structured interviews, we find that the regional governance of energy-neutral housing initiatives is primarily driven by existing social networks in the regions, and less determined by local characteristics of the built environment. Thus, regional governance seems to have generated solutions that are supported by regional actors. Nonetheless, as these solutions are not entirely tailored to the regional situation, functionally speaking, a key question for future research is how effective these solutions will be.

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“…About one-third of the residential sector is managed by housing corporations [58,59]. Although [60] argue that the financial space for housing corporations is large enough, the main goal of a B certificate for this sector [57] is not expected to be met in 2020 [58,61].…”

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Opportunities and Barriers for Biomass Gasification for Green Gas in the Dutch Residential Sector

2018

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The Dutch residential sector is locked-in into natural gas for the supply of heat. The expected depletion of national reserves and induced earthquakes in the production area are reasons to aim to escape this lock-in. The Dutch government and key players in the natural gas sector have expressed large green gas ambitions. This paper explores the opportunities and barriers of biomass gasification for green gas production and application in the residential sector. The Technological Innovation Systems and Multi-Level Perspective were applied as sustainability transition frameworks to explore the current technological state of biomass gasification and the developments in the residential sector. Four limitations were observed from a supply perspective; little financial space for demonstration plants, absence of technology specific policy, lagging market developments and insecurities related to biomass availability. On the demand side, clear barriers hampering change are observed, providing large opportunities for green gas. Key players in the natural gas regime take no substantial responsibility, despite their potential ability to contribute to overcoming systemic barriers. Therefore, this research concludes that the current green gas ambitions set by the Dutch government are not feasible and that the government may address this with technology specific policy, substantial research and development subsidies and funding.

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Improved governance for energy efficiency in housing

Cited by 51 publications

References 31 publications

First evidence for the reliability of building co-heating tests

First evidence for the reliability of building co-heating tests

The Regional Governance of Energy-Neutral Housing: Toward a Framework for Analysis

Opportunities and Barriers for Biomass Gasification for Green Gas in the Dutch Residential Sector

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