TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Kaselofsky, Jan
A1  - Schüle, Ralf
A1  - Rosa, Marika
A1  - Prodanuks, Toms
A1  - Jekabsone, Anda
A1  - Vadovics, Edina
A1  - Vadovics, Kristóf
A1  - Heinel, Thekla
T1  - Top energy saver of the year : results of an energy saving competition in public buildings
N2  - Non-residential buildings in the European Union consume more than one third of the building sector's total. Many non-residential buildings are owned by municipalities. This paper reports about an energy saving competition that was carried out in 91 municipal buildings in eight EU member states in 2019. For each public building an energy team was formed. The energy teams' activities encompassed motivating changes in the energy use behaviour of employees and small investments. Two challenges added an element of gamification to the energy saving competition. To assess the success of the energy saving competition, an energy performance baseline was calculated using energy consumption data of each public building from previous years. Energy consumption in the competition year was monitored on a monthly base. After the competition the top energy savers from each country were determined by the percentage-based reduction of energy consumption compared to the baseline. On average, the buildings had an electricity and heat consumption in 2019 that was about 8 % and 7 %, respectively, lower than the baseline. As an additional data source for the evaluation, a survey among energy team members was conducted at the beginning and after the energy competition. Support from superiors, employee interest and motivation and behaviour change as assessed by energy team members show a positive, if weak or moderate, correlation with changes in electricity consumption, but not with changes in heat consumption.
T2  - Environmental and climate technologies
VL  - 24
Y1  - 2020
UN  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-76517
U6  - https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0103
DO  - https://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2020-0103
IS  - 3
SP  - 278
EP  - 293
ER  -