Abstract
The existing housing stock plays a major role in meeting the energy saving targets set in the Netherlands as well as in the EU. Existing buildings account for 38% of the final energy consumption in the European Union (EU), and they are responsible for 36% of the CO2 emissions. Energy renovations in dwellings offer unique opportunities to reduce both energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In this article, the renovation rates for the non-profit housing stock of the Netherlands are presented, based on the changes in the energy performance of 856,252 dwellings for the period of 2010–2014. The data necessary are drawn from a monitoring system that contains information about the energy performance of approximately 60% of all dwellings in the sector. The method used follows the changes of the dwellings’ physical properties and reported energy performance. The results show that although many energy improvements have been realized, they result in small changes of the energy efficiency of the dwellings. Deep energy renovation rates are very low. If this pace continues, the progress is too little to reach national and international policy targets. The renovation rates are not high enough and the trends seem difficult to reach.
Highlights
The energy performance of buildings is generally so inadequate that the levels of energy consumed in them place the sector among the most significant CO2 emission sources in Europe (BPIE, 2011)
We presented an analysis of the trends of the energy improvement pace between these years, for both the whole period and ABCDEFG Total Labels in 2013 Improvement per year
The data used derived from SHAERE, the official tool for monitoring progress in the field of energy saving measures for the nonprofit housing sector in the Netherlands
Summary
The energy performance of buildings is generally so inadequate that the levels of energy consumed in them place the sector among the most significant CO2 emission sources in Europe (BPIE, 2011). Existing buildings are responsible for 36% of the CO2 emissions in the European Union (EU) (European Commission, 2008, 2014). The building sector plays a major role in order to meet the energy saving targets set in the Netherlands and in the EU (SER, 2013; Ürge-Vorsatz et al, 2007). This is true for existing buildings, because they will constitute the major part of the housing stock over several decades. The renovation activity will be greater than the construction and demolition activity in the future
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