Recommendations for energy conservation standards for new residential buildings: Volume 2: Automated residential energy standard---user's guide--version 1. 1

AbstractA zero-carbon society requires dramatic change everywhere including in buildings, a large and politically sensitive sector. Technical possibilities exist but implementation is slow. Policies include many hard-to-evaluate regulations and may suffer from rebound mechanisms. We use dynamic econometric analysis of European macro data for the period 1990–2018 to systematically examine the importance of changes in energy prices and income on residential energy demand. We find a long-run price elasticity of −0.5. The total long-run income elasticity is around 0.9, but if we control for the increase in income that goes towards larger homes and other factors, the income elasticity is 0.2. These findings have practical implications for climate policy and the EU buildings and energy policy framework.

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Intersecting Residential and Transportation CO2 Emissions: Metropolitan Climate Change Programs in the Age of Trump

Journal of Planning Education and Research ◽

10.1177/0739456x17729438 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 206-226 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

John D. Landis ◽

David Hsu ◽

Erick Guerra

Keyword(s):

Energy Conservation ◽

Fixed Ratio ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Scale Efficiency ◽

Diversion Programs ◽

Residential Energy ◽

Past Performance ◽

Compact Growth ◽

New Construction ◽

Effective Cost

This article uses a series of fixed-ratio projections and scenarios to explore the potential for local residential energy conservation mandates and compact growth programs to reduce locally based CO2 emissions in eleven representative US metropolitan areas. Averaged across all eleven metros, residential energy conservation mandates could reduce residential CO2 emissions in 2030 by an average of 30 percent over and above 2010 levels. In terms of implementation, residential conservation standards were found to be goal-effective, cost-effective, scale-effective, and in the case of new construction standards, reasonably resistant to local political pushback. Local compact growth programs do not perform as well. If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO2 emissions by as much as 25 percent over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. Unaccompanied by modal diversion programs, the stand-alone potential for local compact growth programs to reduce auto-based CO2 emissions falls into a more modest range of 0 to 7 percent depending on the metropolitan area. Based on past performance, local compact growth programs are also likely to have problems in terms of their goal- and scale-efficiency, and their potential to incur political pushback.

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Energy Saving Calculation and Analysis of the Rural House in Hohhot

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.575.122 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 575 ◽

pp. 122-125

Author(s):

Juan Wang

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Energy Conservation ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Inner Mongolia ◽

Building Energy ◽

Rural Residence ◽

Building Energy Efficiency ◽

Residential Energy ◽

Energy Efficiency Standards

Inner Mongolia mostly belongs to the rural residence building, no any relevant construction standard and building energy efficiency standards. Most of the farmers in build houses without considering building energy problems. This article through to a rural residential energy conservation calculation and analysis, and obtain the energy-saving index.

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