The impact of energy efficient refurbishment on the space heating fuel consumption in English dwellings

Hong, Sung Yong; Oreszczyn, Tadj; Ridley, Ian

doi:10.1016/j.enbuild.2006.01.007

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“…In support of Baker et al (1989), Milne and Boardman (2000)observe higher rebounds in low-income houses for improvements in heating technology. Also, Hong et al (2006) used evaluation methods to assess the magnitude of rebound effects from efficient heating installations in lower income homes in the United Kingdom. They find the direct effect alone to be close to 100% in many cases.…”

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The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

Vivanco

Freire‐González

Kemp

et al. 2014

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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The main objective of the thesis is to seek insights into the theory, and provide empirical evidence of rebound effects. Rebound effects reduce the environmental benefits of environmental policies and household behaviour changes. In particular, win-win demand side measures, in the form of energy efficiency and household consumption pattern changes, are seen as ways for households and businesses to save money and the environment. However, these savings have environmental impacts when spent, which are known as rebound effects. This is an area that has been widely neglected by policy makers.This work extends the rebound effect literature in three important ways, (1) it incorporates the potential for variation of rebound effects with household income level, (2) it enables the isolation of direct and indirect effects for cases of energy efficient technology adoption, and examines the relationship between these two component effects, and (3) it expands the scope of rebound effect analysis to include government taxes and subsidies. MACROBUTTON HTMLDirectUsing a case study approach it is found that the rebound effect from household consumption pattern changes targeted at electricity is between 5 and 10%. For consumption pattern changes with reduced vehicle fuel use, the rebound effect is in the order of 20 to 30%. Higher income households in general are found to have a lower total rebound effect; however the indirect effect becomes relatively more significant at higher household income levels. In the win-lose case of domestic photovoltaic electricity generation, it is demonstrated that negative rebound effects can occur, which can potentially amplify the environmental benefits of this action.The rebound effect from a carbon tax, which occurs due to the re-spending of raised revenues, was found to be in the range of 11-32%. Taxes and transfers between households of different income levels also have environmental implications. For example, a more progressive tax structure, with increased low income welfare payments is likely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Subsidies aimed at encouraging environmentally friendly consumption habits are also subject to rebound effects, as they constitute a substitution of government expenditure for household expenditure. For policy makers, these findings point to the need to incorporate rebound effects in the environmental policy evaluation process.' KeywordsRebound effect, demand side management, direct rebound effect, indirect rebound effect, greenhouse gas emissions, CO 2 , household consumption patterns, efficiency, energy, conservation, natural resources. The energy and emissions produced at other stages of the production chain outside of the household scope. vi List of Tables and +/-is efficiency net effect minus the conservation net effect with negative values in parentheses). 66 Table 5.5: Rebound effects at mean and median total expenditure levels for separated fuel efficiency case (indirect reduction is the efficiency indirect rebound minus the conservation indir...

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Section: Evidence Of the Direct Effectmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

Vivanco

Freire‐González

Kemp

et al. 2014

Environ. Sci. Technol.

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“…Sunikka (2003) concludes that the real potential for sustainable building and CO 2 reduction lies in management of the existing stock of residential buildings. According to Papadopoulos et al (2002), Gorgolewski (1995), Hong et al (2006) the energy efficient refurbishment of existing buildings is an important tool for the reduction of energy consumption in the building sector, the improvement of prevailing indoor thermal comfort conditions and also for the improvement of environmental conditions in urban areas. At the same time, it is technical, economic and social problem posed by the manner in which many cities have been built and the restrictions imposed by economic constrains that tantalize most countries in South-Eastern Europe.…”

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The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

Mickaityte

Zavadskas

Kaklauskas

et al. 2008

International Journal of Strategic Property Management

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ABSTRACT. Sustainable development principles reaching many spheres of human activities, public buildings refurbishment is not an exemption in this case. Buildings refurbishment supports excellent opportunities to reduce energy consumption in buildings as well as encourages other sustainable refurbishment principles implementation -citizens' healthcare, environment protection, rational resources use, information about sustainable refurbishment dissemination and stakeholders groups' awareness. During the pilot refurbishment FP-6 project Brita in PuBs, authors of this article have developed conceptual sustainable public buildings refurbishment model. Model was created basing on sustainable development principles, their consideration in decision making process and model efficiency influencing factors. In order to demonstrate models' application possibilities following the healthcare principle, practical case study of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University main building pollution mapping is given at the end of this article.

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“…Addressing this challenging typology presents an opportunity to deliver significant carbon reductions and increased occupant thermal comfort from improved building fabric performance [22,23]. However, this carbon reduction challenge is intensified by the underperformance of many interventions [24][25][26][27] and the low rate of refurbishment [28][29][30]. Just four percent of solid walls in the UK's pre-1919 properties are insulated [31] and it is unknown how many pre-1919 ground floors are insulated.…”

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Heat-flow variability of suspended timber ground floors: Implications for in-situ heat-flux measuring

Pelsmakers

Fitton

Biddulph

et al. 2017

Energy and Buildings

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Reducing space heating energy demand supports the UK's legislated carbon emission reduction targets and requires the effective characterisation of the UK's existing housing stock to facilitate retrofitting decisionmaking. Approximately 6.6 million UK dwellings pre-date 1919 and are predominantly of suspended timber ground floor construction, the thermal performance of which has not been extensively investigated. This paper examines suspended timber ground floor heat-flow by presenting high resolution in-situ heat-flux measurements undertaken in a case study house at 15 point locations on the floor. The results highlight significant variability in observed heat-flow: point U-values range from 0.56 ±0.05 to 1.18 ±0.11 Wm -2 K -1 .This highlights that observing only a few measurements is unlikely to be representative of the whole floor heat-flow and the extrapolation from such point values to whole floor U-value estimates could lead to its over-or under-estimation. Floor U-value models appear to underestimate the actual measured floor U-value in this case study. This paper highlights the care with which in-situ heat-flux measuring must be undertaken to enable comparison with models, literature and between studies and the findings support the unique, highresolution in-situ monitoring methodology used in this study for further research in this area.

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The impact of energy efficient refurbishment on the space heating fuel consumption in English dwellings

Cited by 192 publications

References 5 publications

The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

The Remarkable Environmental Rebound Effect of Electric Cars: A Microeconomic Approach

The Concept Model of Sustainable Buildings Refurbishment

Heat-flow variability of suspended timber ground floors: Implications for in-situ heat-flux measuring

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