scholarly journals Profitability of Various Energy Supply Systems in Light of Their Different Energy Prices and Climate Conditions

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaheh Jalilzadehazhari ◽  
Georgios Pardalis ◽  
Amir Vadiee

The majority of the single-family houses in Sweden are affected by deteriorations in building envelopes as well as heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. These dwellings are, therefore, in need of extensive renovation, which provides an excellent opportunity to install renewable energy supply systems to reduce the total energy consumption. The high investment costs of the renewable energy supply systems were previously distinguished as the main barrier in the installation of these systems in Sweden. House-owners should, therefore, compare the profitability of the energy supply systems and select the one, which will allow them to reduce their operational costs. This study analyses the profitability of a ground source heat pump, photovoltaic solar panels and an integrated ground source heat pump with a photovoltaic system, as three energy supply systems for a single-family house in Sweden. The profitability of the supply systems was analysed by calculating the payback period (PBP) and internal rate of return (IRR) for these systems. Three different energy prices, three different interest rates, and two different lifespans were considered when calculating the IRR and PBP. In addition, the profitability of the supply systems was analysed for four Swedish climate zones. The analyses of results show that the ground source heat pump system was the most profitable energy supply system since it provided a short PBP and high IRR in all climate zones when compared with the other energy supply systems. Additionally, results show that increasing the energy price improved the profitability of the supply systems in all climate zones.

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
I. L. Cîrstolovean

Abstract The goals of this paper are: to estimate the carbon emission reduction on energy efficiency measurements in a laboratory building in Transilvania University from Braşov, Romania, in accordance with the European Directive 2009/28/EC and to estimate the contribution of renewable energy to energy efficiency of the building using the performance indicator named Renewable Energy Ratio - RER. We will detail the methods of calculation for CO2 emissions and we will present the results for gas condensing boiler, and ground source heat pump for the laboratory building. The results show that conventional energy efficiency technologies and renewable energy technologies can be used to decrease CO2 emissions in buildings by 20–30% on average and up to over 40% for some building types and locations. The contribution of renewable energy is between 40 and 50 % from total energy use and only for heating is 58%. This value could rise to 0.63 if we apply to electricity produced by photovoltaic panels.


2013 ◽  
Vol 724-725 ◽  
pp. 955-959
Author(s):  
Lei Sun ◽  
Jia Fu Xiao ◽  
Chun Yu Ran ◽  
Li Yun Zhang

According to China's current energy present situation, the use of renewable energy, saving energy and reducing consumption has become the energy industry development should follow the basic principles. Ground-source heat pump and conventional heat source composite system as a kind of building energy efficiency technology, mainly reflected in soil source heat pump renewable energy utilization aspects. In this paper the soil source heat pump and conventional heat source matching design and operation mode research, from the matching design principle chart, operation mode, the practical engineering application, economic and technical analysis into consideration, it is concluded that the soil source heat pump and conventional heat source composite system can be applied and research.


2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Saadia Barbhuiya ◽  
Salim Barbhuiya

INTRODUCTION In this paper an attempt has been made to provide the best options for renewable energy and low carbon technologies to reduce CO2 emissions from a detached house built in 1950 and located in London. The options for energy efficiency measures—photovoltaics, solar thermal, wind turbine, ground source heat pump, Gas CHP—have been evaluated on the basis of energy and CO2 savings and technical viability. The main conclusions derived from this study are summarised in this paper.


2019 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 01065
Author(s):  
LI Ji ◽  
CHEN Bin ◽  
LI Jintang ◽  
CHENG Chonghua ◽  
GAO Zhenwu ◽  
...  

Baoji “Shigu • Tian Xi Tai”, “Shigu • Sun City” ground source heat pump energy station system is an important energy supply project in Shigu. In this paper, we systematically introduce the design of green building and ground-source heat pump system, points of construction process, pre-cooling station technology, EMC economic model in detail. In addition, the ground source heat pump system of the project was tested in the field to analyze and evaluate the running performance of the system. We hope our research can provide some reference and help to the practitioners.


2011 ◽  
Vol 354-355 ◽  
pp. 766-772
Author(s):  
Chun Ni Yao ◽  
Bin Hao

Renewable energy, which is drawing more and more attentions in low global warming potential research area, has been applied in a large area of China for the past decade. In 2004, the overall application area of ground-source heat pump (GSHP) as a typical renewable energy is less than 8 million m2, while the overall application area increased dramatically to 100 million m2 till 2009. The present work did an in-depth research of coefficient of system performance (COPs) of GSHP based on the test results of around 70 building-integrated applications over 5 million m2. After comparison of different cool/heat source types and analysis of the collected existing application problems, the present paper provides some suggestions on the sustainable application of GSHP in China.


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