Abstract
Several scientific articles discuss non-technical barriers and policy instruments related to energy efficient building renovation. However, they are seldom systematically categorized and hardly ever related to Russian context even if Russian housing provides remarkable potential for energy-efficiency improvements. This paper identifies non-technical barriers to building energy renovations and potential policy instruments to overcome these barriers. The study was carried out by using the following methods: first, we mapped the barriers and policy instruments addressed in renovation-related studies. Following this step, we studied the importance of barriers and the feasibility of various policy instruments in and with a few selected Russian experts. The outcome of the interviews indicates that standards, information dissemination and awareness raising are the most efficient instruments to promote energy renovations of buildings in Russia. Both students and the interviewed Russian experts shared the view that the role of the Government is highly important regarding introduction of these instruments.
Highlights
Russia is one of the most energy consuming countries in the world, which can partly but not completely be explained by its cold climate and heavy industry
This paper aims to identify non-technical barriers to energy efficient renovation of residential districts and highlight the ones which are relevant in Russia
This section is organized as follows: Section 3.1 categorizes renovation related policy instrument identified in the scientific literature, Section 3.2 presents the results of the focused questionnaire to the students of the Russian class in Mikkeli University of Applied Science, and Section 3.3 presents the results of the semi-structured interviews of the same group of students
Summary
Russia is one of the most energy consuming countries in the world, which can partly but not completely be explained by its cold climate and heavy industry. In Russia, the residential sector is the second largest energy consuming sector after manufacturing [1], and studies on the energy consumption and energy-efficiency of Russian buildings from the 1990s indicate a strong need for energy-efficiency improvements of Russian housing [2,3,4,5]. There are quite a few recent studies [7,8,9,10,11,12], which discuss the considerable potential to improve energy-efficiency in Russian residential buildings and the related infrastructure in districts.
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