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In this chapter the economic impact of some measures for energy efficiency, both using automation of technical infrastructures (according to EN 15232) as well as implementing passive measures concerning the use of building materials and techniques (according to EN 15271), is studied. The chapter is organized as follows. First, a technical-economical study on the evaluation of the impact on residential buildings of Building Automation Control, BAC, and Technical Building Management, TBM, systems is presented. Then the same assessment of some passive measures that can be employed is carried out using the Passive House Standard for Mediterranean warm climates is shown. Numerical elaborations have been carried out for a sample house located in Palermo, Sicily (Southern Italy). The building is located in the EuroMediterranean area and thus all measures are referred to warm climates.
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According to the definition provided by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Demand Response (DR) is defined as “Changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity over time, or to incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at times of high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardized”.
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Monte Carlo methods are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results; typically one runs simulations many times over in order to obtain the distribution of an unknown probabilistic entity.
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SyrSim-home is a software that implements the Monte Carlo method to build the power consumption diagrams for residential uses and automated loads control.
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For example, if i = 5 %, a cash flow C t * = 1,000 € produced at the 10th year is equivalent to 614 € at year 0.
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The Law n. 10/1991 is in Italy the fist law imposing energy savings and installation of renewable energy sources in buildings.
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Riva Sanseverino, E., Zizzo, G. (2014). Economic Feasibility of Measures for Energy Efficiency. In: Riva Sanseverino, E., Riva Sanseverino, R., Vaccaro, V., Zizzo, G. (eds) Smart Rules for Smart Cities. SxI - Springer for Innovation / SxI - Springer per l'Innovazione, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06422-2_6
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