Impact of Users’ Behavior and Real Weather Conditions on the Energy Consumption of Tenement Houses in Wroclaw, Poland: Energy Performance Gap Simulation Based on a Model Calibrated by Field Measurements

Małgorzata Szulgowska-Zgrzywa, Ewelina Stefanowicz, Krzysztof Piechurski, Agnieszka Chmielewska and Marek Kowalczyk
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Małgorzata Szulgowska-Zgrzywa: Department of Air-Conditioning, Heating, Gas Engineering and Air Protection, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Norwida St. 4/6, 50-373 Wroclaw, Poland
Ewelina Stefanowicz: Department of Air-Conditioning, Heating, Gas Engineering and Air Protection, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Norwida St. 4/6, 50-373 Wroclaw, Poland
Krzysztof Piechurski: Department of Air-Conditioning, Heating, Gas Engineering and Air Protection, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Norwida St. 4/6, 50-373 Wroclaw, Poland
Agnieszka Chmielewska: Department of Air-Conditioning, Heating, Gas Engineering and Air Protection, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Norwida St. 4/6, 50-373 Wroclaw, Poland
Marek Kowalczyk: Department of Climatology and Atmosphere Protection, University of Wroclaw, Kosiby St. 8, 51-621 Wroclaw, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-15

Abstract: This paper presents the results of measuring the final energy consumption for heating and domestic hot water (DHW) preparation and indoor conditions in 15 apartments located in pre-war tenement houses. The measurements were compared to the computed energy consumption. The calculations ware made based on the model calibrated by field measurements. The discrepancies between measurements and calculations were assessed using the energy performance gap (EPG). Calculations were made separately for energy for heating and for DHW preparation. Additionally, the results of EPG calculations for different levels of analysis are presented aiming at assessing the impact of weather, temperature in the surrounding zones and users’ behavior. Users’ behaviors influencing the size of the EPG were divided into typical (energy saving or excessive energy consumption) and forced (energy poverty, response to the apartment’s surroundings, technical limitations. The connection between the heating sources and the heating habits has been clearly observed in the research. The former (typical) behaviors were the origin of the energy gap in the apartments heated with natural gas and district heating. The latter (forced) were the origin of the gap in the apartments heated with mostly electricity and solid fuel (with one exception: one apartment that utilized the district heating).

Keywords: energy performance gap; user behavior; energy poverty; pre-war tenement building (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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