Chapter 12

Cost-Effectiveness of Retrofitting Swedish Buildings

É. Mata1 and F. Johnsson2,    1IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden,    2Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

Abstract

This chapter presents potentials for energy conservation through energy retrofitting of existing Swedish buildings, including residential and nonresidential buildings. The Swedish building stock is described with 1800 representative buildings, in a combination of sample and archetype buildings, and is modeled with a dynamic and detailed building-stock model. Ten individual energy conservation measures and 6 packages of measures are considered. The chapter also presents how the cost-effectiveness of the measures depends ...

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