In European Union (EU) buildings consume approximately the 40% of total primary energy. Heat pump (HP) systems have proven to be an efficient and economically viable alternative to conventional systems to provide heating and cooling services in buildings. An effective penetration of this...

The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) recast imposed on all Member States to establish representative reference buildings as an important step in drawing up a methodology for calculating cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements for buildings and building...

In accordance with Directive 2010/31/EU (EPBD recast), all EU Member States are obliged to perform analysis on cost optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements. Besides EU Member States, this EU directive influence candidate countries correspondingly. In order to establish national...

Advanced concept of energy system for space heating, hot water preparation in new family buildings has been developed. Energy system consists of innovative heat pump (5.5 kW) extracting the heat from two environments: ground and ambient air. Heat pump is coupled with simple seasonal ground...

Advanced concept of energy system for space heating, hot water preparation in new family buildings has been developed. Energy system consists of innovative heat pump (5.5 kW) extracting the heat from two environments: ground and ambient air. Heat pump is coupled with simple seasonal ground...

The World Energy Council releases the Energy Trilemma Index (ETI) report annually primarily to assess the energy performance of countries worldwide. Nevertheless, the varying preferences of the dimensions in the ETI between the countries are debatable. The objective of this study is weight...

One of the most important mechanisms to improve the sustainability of each country are monitoring the performance of the industries not only in the energy perspective but also the environmental point of view and setting the improvement goal. This study presents an indicator that can reflect both...

One of the most important mechanisms to improve the sustainability of each country are monitoring the performance of the industries not only in the energy perspective but also the environmental point of view and setting the improvement goal. This study presents an indicator that can reflect both...