Economic and Technical Feasibility of Metering and Sub-metering Systems for Heat Accounting

Luca Celenza, Marco Dell Isola, Giorgio Ficco, Marco Greco and Michele Grimaldi
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Luca Celenza: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy,
Marco Dell Isola: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy,
Giorgio Ficco: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy
Marco Greco: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy,
Michele Grimaldi: University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy.

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 2016, vol. 6, issue 3, 581-587

Abstract: The energy efficiency directive 2012/27/EU (EED) requires that final users in multi-apartment buildings supplied by common central heating source should be provided by 31 December 2016 with accounting systems, as long as technical feasibility and reasonable costs in relation to the potential energy savings can be demonstrated. Such systems would reflect users actual thermal energy consumption. The typical configuration of Italian multiapartment buildings implies quite expensive installation costs and sometimes even prevents the installation for technical reasons. Coherently with EED, in such cases alternative cost-efficient methods for heat accounting should be adopted, such as indirect methods. This study assesses the economic and technical feasibility of the most common heat accounting systems. In this paper, after a brief analysis of the different approaches adopted in EU member states, the authors present a cost/benefit analysis that considers the main capital and running costs of individual heat accounting systems with respect to the potential energy savings achievable.

Keywords: Energy Efficiency; Heat Accounting; Cost Efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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