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Cost‐benefit analysis of energy saving strategies adopted by the commercial sector in T ehran
Author(s) -
Khadivi Samira,
Moradi Mohammad Ali
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental progress and sustainable energy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.495
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1944-7450
pISSN - 1944-7442
DOI - 10.1002/ep.12069
Subject(s) - energy consumption , environmental economics , consumption (sociology) , energy (signal processing) , function (biology) , energy demand , supply and demand , operations management , economics , engineering , microeconomics , mathematics , social science , statistics , sociology , electrical engineering , evolutionary biology , biology
This study presents a cost‐benefit analysis of energy saving strategies for the commercial sector inTehran City. The article includes a discussion of the estimated energy demand for various energy saving scenarios. The cost‐benefit analysis was performed separately for seven energy‐saving scenarios based on the energy demand and supply forecasting model. According to which, energy demand of the commercial sector was considered as final consumption, which is a function of different parameters such as number of commercial units, number of electric vehicles, volume of commercial activities, labor force, etc. The research findings indicated that all of the proposed scenarios are economically viable, except for the forth scenario (the use of heat pumps). © 2015 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Environ Prog, 34: 850–857, 2015