Abstract
Global warming has been on the agenda over the past few years. Solutions to global warming and energy efficiency problems have brought with them the need for green building market. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a certification system regulating the compliance of green buildings to certain standards and is essential for construction projects focusing on sustainability and innovation. This study investigates the effects of sunshine duration on construction projects reducing annual electricity consumption and increasing renewable energy production. In this study, the effects of sunshine duration times on construction projects are located in different cities in Turkey which has gained point from LEED BD+C (NC) (LEED, Building Design + Construction: New Construction) certificate were analyzed with the help of getting the impact of annual electricity consumption and renewable energy production rates. It was our aim that the results will be used for construction projects in compliance with the “Energy and Atmosphere” category of the LEED BD+C certification system.
Highlights
The increased consumption of natural resources in recent years has called for renewable energy sources
This study analyzed the amount of energy consumed and produced by PV panels in three Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
BD + C certified projects in three cities to investigate the correlation between sunshine duration and renewable energy production
Summary
The increased consumption of natural resources in recent years has called for renewable energy sources. Due to the rapid development of human civilization and expansion of the global economy, fossil fuel energy is going to be exhausted [1]. The consumption of natural resources is expected to increase gradually in the coming years. According to IEA (International Energy Agency) (2018), the share of renewable resources in total primary energy will reach 15,91 Mtoe (Million tonnes of oil equivalent) between 2017 and 2025, and electricity consumption will be the highest with 44,94 Mtoe. According to IEA preliminary estimates, global energy demand grew by 2.1% in 2017, which is twice the growth rate in 2016 [2]. It is widely accepted that fossil fuel consumption leads to high rates of carbon emissions, resulting in global warming [4].
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