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- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit
- apital market. Surpluses are gains, when they are higher than those for an alternative, economically com... epending on number of periods and interest rates. High interest rates depreciate the value of the revenu... on the discount rate. Discount rates are crucial: High expected rates of return depreciate later revenue... ll the measures’ costs which are often many times higher than the additional investment costs for energy
- Are Passive Houses cost-effective?
- t. Since the value of such areas can be set to be high or low and this has very little to do with the co... h more expensive than the one-off investment in a high quality, airtight external envelope; besides that... |//**__Fig. 5:__ Passive House suitable windows. Highly insulating windows\\ are indispensable in a Pas... dditional investment must be financed through a **higher mortgage loan**. At an interest rate of 4.7% an
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- ed to agree that what may not be, that cannot be. High energy prices are not exactly a stimulus for the ... industry and society been seriously prepared for higher energy prices early enough, it would have had a... t based on the relevance of the reasons given for high prices in the past: * Production capacities ar... ent solution. Passive Houses necessitate somewhat higher investment costs when compared with ordinary ne
- Superior thermal protection is affordable
- anged fundamentally; for example, a significantly higher average energy price must be assumed today for ... ed businesses; the businesses located here have a high concentration of employment, so that consistent m
- Factors that influence the energy balance and affordability of non-residential EnerPHit projects @basics:affordability:investing_in_energy_efficiency:economic_feasibility_of_passive_house_retrofits
- ce between the two standards (Figure 1). But such high levels of internal heat are an indication that el