TOOLS TO HELP ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS

Abstract

Energy efficiency is the goal of every investor, owner or user of buildings amid the trend of increasing energy prices worldwide. Often this understandable drive goes hand in hand with quite unrealistic expectations.

Achieving energy sustainability and efficiency in public buildings usually has a much greater social and economic impact.

Before we take the first important step towards energy efficiency, we need to know a few things: where are we on the energy efficiency scale, can we improve it and by what means? How much will it cost and how long will the investment pay for itself?

The PRO-ENERGY project aims at promoting Energy Efficiency in public buildings in the Balkan Mediterranean territory and to create a practical framework of modelling and implementing energy investments interventions, through specific ICT monitoring and control systems, as well as through energy performance contracting. The current “Joint cost-benefit analysis modeller” aims at supporting decision-making for retrofits, renovations, etc., which lead to increased energy efficiency in public buildings. It was tasted for piloting public building of UARD (University of Agribusiness and Rural Development), Plovdiv, Bulgaria.