What is it about?
An appropriate heating costs allocation (HCA) method may secure the fair distribution of the relevant expenses and at the same time to act as an incentive (or even worse as an anti-incentive) to the efficient operation of central heating systems. But how reliable can be old algorithms still used to this aim, when technology advancements and remarkable energy prices increments do strongly affect the tenants’ behavior?
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that a HCA method may occasionally lead to overconsumption. The circumstances of alternatively heated apartments (e.g. by the use of a heat-pump) or of non-heated apartments (due to energy poverty) in multi-dwelling buildings (which are quite often nowadays and lead to inefficient operation of central heating systems), can be coped with adopting a suitably revised HCA method.
Perspectives
This publication may help the end-users of central heating systems (in multi-dwelling buildings) to operate their system in a rational and more efficient way. In addition, this publication may act as a stimulus for the authorities to reconsider the valid HCA methods within the present technical and economic framework.
Professor John Joachim Gelegenis
Technological Educational Institute of Athens
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This page is a summary of: Determination of fixed expenses in central heating costs allocation, Management of Environmental Quality An International Journal, September 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/meq-02-2014-0030.
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