dc.creatorCardoso, María Betina
dc.creatorGonzalez, Alejandro Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-17T21:30:54Z
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-15T08:40:49Z
dc.date.available2020-12-17T21:30:54Z
dc.date.available2022-10-15T08:40:49Z
dc.date.created2020-12-17T21:30:54Z
dc.date.issued2019-06
dc.identifierCardoso, María Betina; Gonzalez, Alejandro Daniel; Residential energy transition and thermal efficiency in an arid environment of northeast Patagonia, Argentina; Elsevier; Energy for Sustainable Development; 50; 6-2019; 82-90
dc.identifier0973-0826
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/120808
dc.identifier2352-4669
dc.identifierCONICET Digital
dc.identifierCONICET
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/4366164
dc.description.abstractWe have studied changes in energy use and practices due to a program which partially replaced firewood by fossil fuels. The program has been running for nearly five years in rural dwellings in Patagonia Argentina, where limited provision of fuelwood and social vulnerability are found. As a case study we focused on the community of Laguna Blanca, Province of Río Negro, located in the Patagonian steppe. Dwellings are one-family houses which were built with no energy efficiency measures, exposing reinforced concrete structures, fired-clay bricks, metal roofs and single-glass windows to severe weather. Since 2014, a government program fully subsidized the refilling of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) to vulnerable rural communities, which were provided with a 200-kg gas tank and a gas heater in each household. An expected decrease in the use of fuelwood was observed, along with a very high consumption of LPG (around 650 kWh/m2 year), which can be for the first time assessed due to the known amount of LPG provided. The lack of energy efficiency policies led to very high operational costs and environmental impacts. Based on the dwellings' characteristics, we have also found that the LPG subsidies saved in 2.2 years would return the investment for a thermal insulation that would reduce 50% the gas consumption and substantially improve comfort.
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261831370X
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2019.03.007
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.subjectENERGY TRANSITION
dc.subjectFUELWOOD
dc.subjectRURAL DWELLINGS
dc.subjectSUBSIDIES
dc.subjectTHERMAL EFFICIENCY
dc.titleResidential energy transition and thermal efficiency in an arid environment of northeast Patagonia, Argentina
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion


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