The role of economic and policy variables in energy-efficient retrofitting assessment. A stochastic Life Cycle Costing methodology

Edoardo Baldoni, Silvia Coderoni, Marco D'Orazio, Elisa Di Giuseppe and Roberto Esposti

Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 129, issue C, 1207-1219

Abstract: Energy saving is a major policy objective worldwide and in the EU in particular. Evaluating the convenience of energy-efficient investments, however, is complex. This paper aims to apply stochastic Life Cycle Costing to assess the economic value of energy-efficient building retrofitting investments. The proposed approach investigates how macroeconomic variables affect such an evaluation by explicitly taking into account their interdependent stochastic nature. Consequently, the economic evaluation of an investment is itself stochastic thus expressing both its expected value and its inherent uncertainty and risk. On this basis, an illustrative case-study is presented, where alternative designs of the energy-saving intervention are compared and a sensitivity analysis performed to identify the determinants of the LCC outcome and of its variability. In terms of policy implications, a tool providing a sounder evaluation of the convenience of such investments can suggest when and to what extent incentives may be appropriate to facilitate these investments and what possible financial instruments could be put forward in order to reduce the associated risk.

Keywords: LCC; Life cycle costing; VAR; Vector autoregression; Sensitivity analysis; Energy efficiency policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C32 C53 G11 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.03.018

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