Research Article
Annual Energy Usage Reduction and Cost Savings of a School: End-Use Energy Analysis
Table 14
Energy usage reduction results for various researches carried out on schools.
| Researcher | Energy usage reduction | Focus of energy conservation measures |
| Alajmi, 2012 [9] | 8.8% | Nonretrofitting and lighting | Butala and Novak, 1999 [10] | 89% | Heating | Desideri and Proietti, 2002 [11] | 46% | Thermal and electrical | Perez and Capeluto, 2009 [12] | 50% | HVAC and lighting | Santamouris et al., 2007 [13] | 20% | Heating | Dimoudi and Kostarela, 2009 [14] | 13.34% | Heating and cooling | Becker et al., 2007 [15] | () 28–30% for northern classroom orientations () 17-18% for southern classroom orientations | Passive building designs and ventilation schemes | Dall’O and Sarto, 2013 [16] | () Standard scenario, 15% () Cost-effective scenario, 67% () High performance scenario, 81% | HVAC |
Bećirović and Vasić 2013 [17] | 49% | HVAC, motors, passive building design |
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