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Renewable Homes—Feasibility Options for UK Traditional Buildings Through Green Deal

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Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings

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UK government set up several policies to promote renewable technologies uptake and to improve the energy efficiency of dwellings. Green Deal is the most recent UK policy and it intends to promote the energy efficient refurbishment of existing dwellings. This study explores potential packages through Green Deal for five different dwelling types. The proposed packages include: the use of insulation, glazing and renewable energy technologies. This paper proposes three potential packages for each dwelling type, which would have the ability to offer the maximum amount of CO2 savings. A model has been developed in order to evaluate the recommended packages. It seems that the package of: internal, cavity, floor, roof/loft, doors insulation and micro turbine could offer the most significant CO2 reduction in detached dwellings, while the package of: external, cavity, floor, roof/loft, doors insulation and a wind turbine could offer the lowest amount of CO2 savings in terraced dwellings.

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  1. Department of Civil, Environment and Geomatic Engineering, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

    Charikleia Moschou

  2. Energy Institute, UCL, Central House, 14 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0NN, UK

    Catalina Spataru

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  1. Cardiff School of Art & Design, The Ecological Built Environment group (EBERE), Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    John Littlewood

  2. Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resou, University College London Bartlett School Env, Energy & Resou, London, United Kingdom

    Catalina Spataru

  3. KES International, Shoreham-by-Sea, United Kingdom

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Moschou, C., Spataru, C. (2017). Renewable Homes—Feasibility Options for UK Traditional Buildings Through Green Deal. In: Littlewood, J., Spataru, C., Howlett, R., Jain, L. (eds) Smart Energy Control Systems for Sustainable Buildings. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 67. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52076-6_5

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