Heating systems of detached houses in Finland a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values

Most of temperature rising greenhouse gas emissions are originated from energy and an important part of tackling climate change is a transition from fossil energy sources to renewable energy. Beside European Union, Finland has ambitious targets to decrease the GHG-emissions and improving buildings e...

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Main Author: Julkunen, Nina
Other Authors: School of Business and Economics, Kauppakorkeakoulu, Business and Economics, Taloustieteet, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylän yliopisto
Format: Master's thesis
Language:eng
Published: 2024
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Online Access: https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/95864
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description Most of temperature rising greenhouse gas emissions are originated from energy and an important part of tackling climate change is a transition from fossil energy sources to renewable energy. Beside European Union, Finland has ambitious targets to decrease the GHG-emissions and improving buildings energy efficiency has important role in reaching the goals. There are more than one million residential detached or semi-detached houses in Finland, and small house living has been traditionally very popular mode of living in Finland. Due to long and cold winters, the heating of buildings is consuming a large share of a buildings’ total energy demand. Heating of houses have also become more an economical issue due to increased energy costs. Historically high electricity prices hit the market in the late 2022’s, causing an unexperienced energy crisis in Finland. The aim of the study was to investigate house owners plans to change or update their heating system, to find out does the heating system effect on house value from house owner’s perspective, to examine attitudes towards tightening energy efficiency requirements and the statutory energy performance certificate EPC, that provides information about the energy efficiency of the house, and to find out how much the environmental friendliness of the heating system weights in relation to the costs. Quantitative research was carried out by using a web-based questionnaire to collect the data. The results of the study showed that a significant part of house owners did consider changing or updating the heating system of their house to more energy efficient system. For the most house owners, the costs were the most important driver and the environmental aspects played less important role. Even there were many negative tones towards EPC amongst the house owners, it was widely agreed that the type of heating system does have strong effect on house value. As a conclusion, speeding up the change to update the heating systems to more energy efficient and environmentally friendly systems, it could be emphasized more as a value adding long-term investment, instead of a plain direct cost, to activate the house owners to change or update the heating systems of their houses. Suurin osa ilmastoa lämmittävistä kasvihuonekaasupäästöistä on lähtöisin energiasta ja tärkeä osa ilmastonmuutoksen torjuntaa on siirtyminen perinteisistä fossiilisista energialähteistä uusiutuvaan energiaan. Osana Euroopan Unionia Suomella on tavoitteita vähentää kasvihuonekaasupäästöjä ja rakennusten energiatehokkuuden parantamisella on tärkeä rooli tavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi. Suomessa on yli miljoona vakituisessa asumiskäytössä olevaa omakoti- tai paritaloa, ja pientaloasuminen on ollut perinteisesti suosittu asumismuoto Suomessa. Pitkien ja kylmien talvien takia omakotitalojen lämmittäminen kuluttaa suurimman osan talojen energian kokonaiskulutuksesta. Talojen lämmittämisestä on tullut myös enenevissä määrin taloudellinen kysymys kohonneiden energian hintojen takia. Vuoden 2022 loppupuolella sähkön hinta nousi erittäin korkeaksi aiheuttaen Suomessa energiakriisin. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena oli kartoittaa omakotitalon omistajien suunnitelmia lämmitysjärjestelmän vaihtamiseen, näkemyksiä lämmitysjärjestelmän vaikutuksesta talon arvoon ja selvittää miten talonomistajat asennoituvat kiristyviin energiatehokkuusvaatimuksiin, talon energiatehokkuudesta kertovaan lakisääteiseen energiatodistukseen ja selvittää kuinka paljon lämmitysjärjestelmän ympäristöystävällisyys merkitsee suhteessa kustannuksiin. Tutkimuksessa käytettiin internet- pohjaista kyselyä vastauksien keräämiseen. Tutkimuksen tulokset osoittivat, että merkittävällä osalla talonomistajista oli suunnitelmia vaihtaa tai päivittää talonsa lämmitysjärjestelmää energiatehokkaampaan järjestelmään. Kustannukset olivat tärkein ajuri muutokselle, kun taas lämmitysmuodon ympäristöystävällisyyttä ei pidetty yhtä tärkeänä. Vaikka energiatodistusta kohtaan ilmeni paljon negatiivista asennetta talonomistajien keskuudessa, laaja yksimielisyys oli siitä, että lämmitysjärjestelmällä on suuri vaikutus talon arvoon. Lopuksi voidaan todeta, että lämmitysjärjestelmän vaihtamista energiatehokkaampaan ja ympäristöystävällisempään järjestelmään olisi hyvä korostaa arvoa lisäävänä pitkän ajan investointina, eikä suorana kuluna, jotta talon omistajia saataisiin aktivoitua lämmitysjärjestelmänsä uusimiseen energiatehokkaampaan järjestelmään.
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title_full Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values
title_fullStr Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values
title_full_unstemmed Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values
title_short Heating systems of detached houses in Finland
title_sort heating systems of detached houses in finland a review to house owners plans attitudes and values
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title_txtP Heating systems of detached houses in Finland : a review to house owners’ plans, attitudes and values
topic house value Corporate Environmental Management Yritysten ympäristöjohtaminen 20425 omakotitalot energiatehokkuus lämmitysjärjestelmät lämmitys pientalot energiatodistukset detached houses energy efficiency heating systems heating (spaces) single-family houses energy certificates
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