Published in Energy Efficiency
In the USA and the European Union, buildings account for more than 40% of total energy use and a large proportion of buildings are energy inefficient. Countries address these inefficiency challenges with various initiatives and strategies. One of them relies on rating buildings with energy performance certificates, with the goal that awareness on e...
Published in Energy Efficiency
Home energy retrofit has recurred in public policy throughout recent decades. However, the savings in energy usage attributable to home retrofit have remained difficult to accurately predict. Occupants cause prediction inaccuracies by varying different factors, especially heating setpoints temperatures and heating patterns. Acting together, such oc...
Published in Energy Efficiency
The challenges currently facing the EU in the energy sector include increasing import dependence, limited diversification, high and volatile energy prices, decarbonization, and slow progress in energy efficiency. EU energy policy has provided a wide range of measures to achieve an integrated energy market and sustainability of the building sector. ...
Published in Energy Efficiency
Assuming that economic policy uncertainty (EPU) can significantly affect economic activities, the paper explored the nature of its effect on energy consumption in G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the USA) over the period 1997–2019 using a panel nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model. The presence of an asymme...
Published in Energy efficiency
In recent years, energy efficiency has been considered an extremely cost-effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. China is a country with the world's largest coal consumption and heavy reliance on thermal power generation. Therefore, the relationship between the coal consumption constraint policy (CCCP) in China and electrical energy effic...
Published in Energy Efficiency
Deploying green energy is, directly and indirectly, related to energy- and environment-related sustainable development goals (SDGs). This study uses the stochastic impact by regression on the population, affluence, and technology (STIRPAT) model to examine the relationship between CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, green energy index (GEI), and gree...
Published in Energy Efficiency
A review of the methods of obtaining water in the Canary Islands (Spain) is presented, dividing the islands into two groups: the eastern islands and the western islands. This division is due to the different origins of water resources, with western islands using mainly underground sources, while the eastern ones main source is seawater desalination...
Published in Energy Efficiency
The existing power systems as well as the smart grids utilize a number of advanced computing, networking, and measurement technologies that improve their planning and operation targeting to a full automated system in terms of monitoring and control. As power systems become more complicated, they face a combination of known and unknown vulnerabiliti...
Published in Energy Efficiency
Published in Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency technologies have been promoted worldwide by policymakers and government and non-governmental institutions to decarbonize economies. In such context, Colombian government forecasted a total energy savings of around of 9% at the end of 2021 by promoting energy efficiency technologies across the different economic sectors. However, ...
