Energy Renovation: A case study of a multi-family house built during the Million program in Djursholm

Abstract: Large share of Swedish building stock were built during 1940-1980 when people were not fully aware of the energy efficiency concept. Majority of the buildings that made energy declaration are in energy class E-G, which are considered as high energy consumption buildings with low energy performance, and only few buildings meet the Swedish requirements for near zero energy buildings which are in energy class A-C. The energy renovation rate of the existing buildings is low and more needs to be done to make the Swedish building stock energy and resource efficient. In this thesis the potential of energy efficiency improvement is investigated for an old multi family house built during the Million program in Sweden. Passive energy renovation measures on the demand-side along with active energy renovation measures on the supply-side were investigated together with their combinations resulting in eight different cases. The investigated demand-side refurbishments are additional attic floor insulation and replacement of windows with insulated glass windows while the supply-side refurbishments are rooftop PV installation and conversion to water-based heating system with GSHP. The results of this study show that combination of all four energy efficiency measures has the highest energy-saving potential and yields the highest NPV compared to the other cases for an assumed real discount rate of 3% and grid purchase price of 1.60 SEK/kWh, while requiringthe highest CAPEX. On the other hand, GSHP with water-based heating system requires two times lower CAPEX, however, has high energy-saving potential and yields high NPV.