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- Are Passive Houses cost-effective?
- e is more stable, more secure and more worthwhile than the alternative. Whoever wants “easy money” shoul... y the external wall will only be slightly thicker than it was before (about 25 mm) (see __**Fig. 2**__).... ll therefor be only 370 mm thick and thus thinner than the original one}// * In the roof, the insula... \ its thermal protection is still somewhat better than that required\\ by energy efficiency regulations
- Economy and financing of efficiency: new buildings, renovation and step by step retrofit
- timated economic energy savings result much lower than they are, which turns out to be a strong barrier ... market. Surpluses are gains, when they are higher than those for an alternative, economically comparable... measures’ costs which are often many times higher than the additional investment costs for energy effici... unts.\\ * When calculation periods are longer than the life cycle of the measure or the component, r
- Superior thermal protection is affordable
- in the days when heating energy was much cheaper than it is nowadays. **The substance of the building i... een 1 and 3.5 cents/kWh per kWh saved - much less than the final energy price of 4.5 cents/kWh for the y... the financial burden due to the loan is much less than the savings in energy costs. The table also show... he initial costs of these measures are even lower than the costs for normal fossil fuels. The value crea
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- s only a current problem; in 2005 there were more than 25 hurricanes; in 2006, before reaching the Ameri... ge prices for energy are hardly likely to be less than today's current prices. Interestingly, there is a... and the variable share of the system costs (more than 1.6 cents/kWh). In total, average future heating
- 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
- Hit standard (based on demand for heating energy) than for a single-family home? Do the EnerPHit require... vides a better payback for the components studied than the EnEV 2009 standard does. Only when the intern