<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Individual heating consumption for dwelling buildings has an important part in Latvia’s energy balance. Increasing energy efficiency and reducing primary energy in the household sector can play a role in national energy targets. This paper analyses three different heating systems which focus on a pellet boiler and solar collector combined system. The performance of existing solar collectors is analysed and the solar collector system performance ratio is determined. Costs including investments, fuel and maintenance have been analysed and a comparison between systems is made using the indicator – costs per produced energy. Results show that the performance of the solar collector system should be increased or investments should decrease to meet the cost effectiveness of other analysed heating systems.</p></abstract>

Individual heating consumption for dwelling buildings has an important part in Latvia’s energy balance. Increasing energy efficiency and reducing primary energy in the household sector can play a role in national energy targets. This paper analyses three different heating systems which focus on a pellet boiler and solar collector combined system. The performance of existing solar collectors is analysed and the solar collector system performance ratio is determined. Costs including investments, fuel and maintenance have been analysed and a comparison between systems is made using the indicator – costs per produced energy. Results show that the performance of the solar collector system should be increased or investments should decrease to meet the cost effectiveness of other analysed heating systems.

Analysis of Energy Supply Solutions of Dwelling Buildings

Institute of Energy Systems and Environment

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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Individual heating consumption for dwelling buildings has an important part in Latvia’s energy balance. Increasing energy efficiency and reducing primary...

Analysis of Energy Supply Solutions of Dwelling Buildings

Data publikacji: 13 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 182 - 189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0088

Słowa kluczowe
Cost analysis, individual heating, pellet boiler, solar collector performance, water heat pump

© 2019 Toms Prodanuks et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Analysis of Energy Supply Solutions of Dwelling Buildings

Data publikacji: 13 gru 2019

Zakres stron: 182 - 189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0088

Słowa kluczoweCost analysis, individual heating, pellet boiler, solar collector performance, water heat pump

© 2019 Toms Prodanuks et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Słowa kluczowe
Cost analysis, individual heating, pellet boiler, solar collector performance, water heat pump