Abstract
Building energy improvement is a fundamental pillar to avoid the energy poverty of families. However, energy rehabilitation could be unattainable for many low-income families. For this reason, the use of operational patterns based on adaptive thermal comfort models could improve their situation. This chapter analyses the results of reducing the energy poverty of families by using an adaptive strategy: adaptive setpoint temperatures. Based on the model from EN 16,798–1:2019, Categories II and III were used to achieve that low-income families are not in energy poverty.
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Bienvenido-Huertas, D., Berti, K., Sánchez-García, D., Marín-García, D. (2022). Assessing the Possibility of Using Adaptive Setpoint Temperatures in Buildings in Southern Spain to Reduce Energy Poverty. In: Rubio-Bellido, C., Solis-Guzman, J. (eds) Energy Poverty Alleviation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91084-6_12
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