Contents

• 1 Colophon
• 2 ECS Chapter 1
  • 2.1 Background and objective
  • 2.2 Samso, a Renewable Energy Island
  • 2.3 Economic Appraisal: Energy Saving Lamp
• 3 Present Worth
  • 3.1 Inflation
  • 3.2 Time Value of Money
  • 3.3 Internal Rate of Return
  • 3.4 Discounting
  • 3.5 Example: LED lamp
• 4 Cases
  • 4.1 District Heating Plant, Ballen-Brundby
  • 4.2 District Heating Plant, Nordby-Maarup
  • 4.3 Biogas Plant, Samso South (proposal)
  • 4.4 Offshore Wind Turbine T1, Paludans Flak I/S
  • 4.5 Offshore Wind Turbine T7, I/S Difko Samso 1
  • 4.6 Offshore Wind Turbines T2-T6, municipal
  • 4.7 Household Wind Turbine
  • 4.8 Ground Heat, Private Residence
  • 4.9 Solar Thermal Heat, Private Residence
  • 4.10 Photovoltaic Panels on Grid, Private Residence
  • 4.11 Energy Efficiency, Private Residence
• 5 Cost Benefit Analysis of the Ballen-Brundby Plant
  • 5.1 Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis
  • 5.2 Overview of the Economic Feasibility
  • 5.3 Composition of heating demand in the area
  • 5.4 Costs in the Reference Scenario
    • 5.4.1 Reference scenario heating costs
    • 5.4.2 Other reference scenario costs
    • 5.4.3 Total reference scenario heating costs
  • 5.5 Costs in the Project Scenario
    • 5.5.1 Project scenario heating costs
    • 5.5.2 Non-monetized costs
    • 5.5.3 Total project scenario heating costs
  • 5.6 Cost Comparison
  • 5.7 NPV of the Ballen-Brundby Plant
  • 5.8 Critique of the above CBA
• 6 Energy Savings
  • 6.1 Introduction to Energy Savings
    • 6.1.1 Attitudes and behaviour
    • 6.1.2 How much can you save?
  • 6.2 Electricity
    • 6.2.1 Who can save where?
    • 6.2.2 Average apartment energy consumption
    • 6.2.3 Average household energy consumption
    • 6.2.4 Light source lifetime
    • 6.2.5 Standby Losses
    • 6.2.6 Which appliances are the most expensive to run?
    • 6.2.7 Home Electricity Monitor
    • 6.2.8 Ways to save electricity
  • 6.3 Heating
    • 6.3.1 Heating Consumption
    • 6.3.2 Average apartment heating consumption
    • 6.3.3 Average single home heating consumption
    • 6.3.4 Thermostat controlled radiators
    • 6.3.5 Household savings of CO2
    • 6.3.6 Ways to save heating
  • 6.4 Water
    • 6.4.1 Water Consumption
    • 6.4.2 Average apartment water consumption
    • 6.4.3 Average single home water consumption
    • 6.4.4 Ways to save water
  • 6.5 Ambassador Checklist
    • 6.5.1 General Savings Advices
    • 6.5.2 Savings Advices
    • 6.5.3 Average savings
• 7 References
• 8 Links
• 9 EU projects
  • 9.1 Current Projects
    • 9.1.1 IoI
    • 9.1.2 NightLight
    • 9.1.3 SMILE
    • 9.1.4 SMARTEES
  • 9.2 Past Projects
    • 9.2.1 MATCH
    • 9.2.2 SmartUse
    • 9.2.3 Night Hawks
    • 9.2.4 SMILEGOV
    • 9.2.5 D2D
    • 9.2.6 IMPLEMENT
    • 9.2.7 PROMISE
    • 9.2.8 INRES
    • 9.2.9 Enabling energy plans in Energy Cities and municipalities
    • 9.2.10 BioMob
    • 9.2.11 Energy Ambassadors
    • 9.2.12 BIORES
    • 9.2.13 ARTECLAND
    • 9.2.14 Cradle to Cradle Islands
    • 9.2.15 ISLE-PACT
• 10 Library
• 11 Appendix A: Engineering Economics
  • 11.1 Cash flow
  • 11.2 Internal rate of return, IRR
  • 11.3 Net present value
• 12 Appendix B: Energy
  • 12.1 Calculating in KWh
  • 12.2 Degree Days
  • 12.3 Energy content
  • 12.4 Energy costs and heating methods
  • 12.5 Heat source efficiency
  • 12.6 Kilowatts and Kilowatt-Hours
  • 12.7 Price of a kWh
• 13 Appendix C: Under Development
  • 13.1 Economic Appraisal of Paludans Flak Windturbine
    • 13.1.1 ECS Chapter 1
    • 13.1.2 Simple Investment Stream
    • 13.1.3 Pay-off period rate of return
    • 13.1.4 Average rate of return
    • 13.1.5 NPV
    • 13.1.6 Conclusion