The Possibility Analysis of Adapting a Public Building to the Standard of a Building with a Zero Energy Balance

Karolina Dec, Elżbieta Broniewicz and Mirosław Broniewicz
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Karolina Dec: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Elżbieta Broniewicz: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Mirosław Broniewicz: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Bialystok University of Technology, 15-351 Bialystok, Poland

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-18

Abstract: The paper aims to examine the possibility of adapting an existing school building to the standard of a zero energy building. The school building is a specific case of a building in which the energy consumption is periodic, except for the months with the most sunshine. Therefore, it is necessary to look for a solution that will allow storing the energy obtained, for example, from solar collectors. Based on the analysis of the literature, it was concluded that the use of borehole thermal energy storage might be the right solution to the problem. The article presents the energy balance of the building with and without the use of renewable energy sources and the benefits of using an energy storage system.

Keywords: renewable energy sources; zero energy building; borehole thermal energy storage (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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