Modelling decisions on energy-efficient renovations: A review

Friege, Jonas; Chappin, E.J.L.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2014.07.091

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“…As solutions lack of funding opportunities, the literature suggests government grants or subsidies for energy-efficiency measures [17,22,25,49,53], financial incentives to encourage change of behavior [24] and to increase the profitability of the energy saving technologies [49]. Incentives could be tax rebate for sustainable refurbishment projects [22] or a sliding scale of subsidy for improvements depending on the carbon emission reduction [54].…”

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“…Incentives could be tax rebate for sustainable refurbishment projects [22] or a sliding scale of subsidy for improvements depending on the carbon emission reduction [54]. Other suggested solutions are energy contracting [24], increased government support for specific technologies and products [22] and new finance models for large-scale whole-house retrofits [53].…”

Section: Non-technical Barriers For Energy Efficient Renovationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Solutions suggested in the literature consist of, among others, establishing a well-resourced cross-government team to help define policy and coordinate implementation [46], increased government supplied low carbon programs and schemes [22], enforcement of building regulations on existing homes which would encourage investment in energy efficiency [54] and progressive regulation for higher renovation standard [53].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Non-Technical Barriers to Energy Efficient Renovation of Residential Buildings and Potential Policy Instruments to overcome Them—Evidence from Young Russian Adults

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Ahvenniemi

2017

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Several scientific articles discuss non-technical barriers and policy instruments related to energy efficient building renovation. However, they are seldom systematically categorized and hardly ever related to Russian context even if Russian housing provides remarkable potential for energy-efficiency improvements. This paper identifies non-technical barriers to building energy renovations and potential policy instruments to overcome these barriers. The study was carried out by using the following methods: first, we mapped the barriers and policy instruments addressed in renovation-related studies. Following this step, we studied the importance of barriers and the feasibility of various policy instruments in and with a few selected Russian experts. The outcome of the interviews indicates that standards, information dissemination and awareness raising are the most efficient instruments to promote energy renovations of buildings in Russia. Both students and the interviewed Russian experts shared the view that the role of the Government is highly important regarding introduction of these instruments.

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“…Baek and Park, 2012;Stieß and Dunkelberg, 2013;Friege and Chappin, 2014). Sorrell et al (2004, p. 10) distinguish several other economic barriers to energy efficiency projects, namely financial risk (for example, uncertainty about the payback time), imperfect information (for example, on potential opportunities), hidden costs and limited access to capital.…”

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Improving energy performance of Dutch homes: coping with general investment behaviours

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2017

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Purpose -Recent findings from a monitor containing around 1.5 million homes in the Dutch non-profit rental sector show that the improvement of the energy performance of the respective homes is mostly carried out in small steps: single measures per dwelling dominate and deep energy renovations are rare. From the way in which housing providers conceive and implement their portfolio and asset management strategies, the paper seeks explanations for the dominance of the small interventions and investigates the argument for a more concentrated allocation of budget resources.Design/methodology -12 housing providers with different energy investment policies were selected and interviewed.Findings -Results show that energy investments, as most other investments, must fit in regular investment schemes and have to follow general decision criteria such as the lifespan of the respective building element and the market position of the respective dwelling. As these schemes are limited in budget and time, the room for a more concentrated allocation of budget resources is small. Research limitations/implications -The number of organisations interviewed isobviously not statistically representative, but gives a good indication of the investment planning practice in the Dutch non-profit housing sector.Originality/value -Much has been written about the (slow) progress of the energy performance in the housing sector, but not about the more structural organisational forces behind this progress.

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“…Friege and Chappin suggests that research papers that are dealing with energy efficiency in building renovation were missing in depth understanding of decision making by building owners [6]. T'Serclaes also adds that ten years are necessary to change the habits of residents while only three to four years are necessary to introduce the new technologies [7].…”

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Climate Change and Buildings Energy Efficiency – the Key Role of Residents

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Zvaigznītis

Stancioff

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Environmental and Climate Technologies

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-Eastern Europe today is confronted with an unavoidable problem -the multifamily apartment building stock is deteriorating but apartment owners do not have sufficient access to resources be they organizational, financial, technical or legal. In addition, destructive myths have grown about the Soviet era buildings despite their continued resilience or the ex-GDR experience in the 90s with the same buildings. Further, without resources, decision making in residential apartments is seen as a major obstacle and used as an explanation why renovation has not taken place in Latvia. This is important not only in the context of a potential housing crisis but also because the renovation of the apartment buildings is an effective solution to significantly reduce the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. It has a proven potential to effectively finance the long term renovation of these buildings. This paper summarizes the first findings of a comprehensive and in-depth study of apartment buildings, their owners and the processes relating to renovation, combining social and environmental engineering research methods. It seeks to understand how owners of multi-family buildings in Eastern Europe understand their buildings and then to answer two questions -how to motivate owners to renovate their homes and increase energy efficiency and what business models should be used to implement economically viable and high quality projects.

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Modelling decisions on energy-efficient renovations: A review

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Cited by 94 publications

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Non-Technical Barriers to Energy Efficient Renovation of Residential Buildings and Potential Policy Instruments to overcome Them—Evidence from Young Russian Adults

Non-Technical Barriers to Energy Efficient Renovation of Residential Buildings and Potential Policy Instruments to overcome Them—Evidence from Young Russian Adults

Improving energy performance of Dutch homes: coping with general investment behaviours

Climate Change and Buildings Energy Efficiency – the Key Role of Residents

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