TY  - JOUR
AU  - Novikova, Aleksandra
AU  - Csoknyai, Tamás
AU  - Szalay, Zsuzsa
TI  - Low carbon scenarios for higher thermal comfort in the residential building sector of South Eastern Europe
JF  - ENERGY EFFICIENCY
J2  - ENERG EFFIC
VL  - 11
PY  - 2018
IS  - 4
SP  - 845
EP  - 875
PG  - 31
SN  - 1570-646X
DO  - 10.1007/s12053-017-9604-6
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3319638
ID  - 3319638
AB  - The paper presents the residential sector building typology, thermal energy balance, and scenarios prepared at several levels of sector segmentation to assist the design of low-carbon development policies for Albania, Serbia, and Montenegro. The research is breakthrough for developing Europe and could be replicated in its countries. The paper describes methodological steps and selected results. First, representative building types were identified; their energy performances by end-use, retrofit packages, as well as associated costs were assessed. Second, this information was inserted into a bottom-up simulation model prepared in the Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning System (LEAP) software. Using it, sector energy balances, the reference scenario, as well as moderate and advanced low-carbon high-thermal-comfort scenarios were prepared. The low-carbon scenarios assumed ambitious regulatory and financial policies. It was found that due to fuel poverty partial and intermittent heating is a typical situation; therefore, the thermal demand as predicted by the models applied to the different segments of the dwelling stock is much higher than its actual consumption. Also, actual consumption by energy source was found not fitting official energy balances because households use more wood and more heating systems than officially reported. In 2030, the moderate and ambitious scenarios lead to a reduction of CO2 emissions by 23–73% and 16–73% respectively versus the reference, offering however at the same time higher thermal comfort. The priority is to retrofit small buildings constructed after 1991 in Albania and those built in 1971–1990 in Montenegro and Serbia. Assuming the discount rate of 4% and counting saved energy costs as benefits, almost all scenarios are cost-effective as a whole on the country level, however not for many building categories. Therefore, not only saved energy costs but also other benefits should be monetized and compared to the scenario costs that present the next research opportunity.
LA  - English
DB  - MTMT
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
AU  - Csoknyai, Tamás
AU  - Hrabovszky-Horváth, Sára Erzsébet
AU  - Zdravko, Georgiev
AU  - Milica, Jovanovic-Popovic
AU  - Bojana, Stankovic
AU  - Otto, Villatoro
AU  - Szendrő, Gábor
TI  - Building stock characteristics and energy performance of residential buildings in Eastern-European countries
JF  - ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
J2  - ENERG BUILDINGS
VL  - 132
PY  - 2016
SP  - 39
EP  - 52
PG  - 14
SN  - 0378-7788
DO  - 10.1016/j.enbuild.2016.06.062
UR  - https://m2.mtmt.hu/api/publication/3125686
ID  - 3125686
LA  - English
DB  - MTMT
ER  -