STANDARDIZING THE ANNUAL ELECTRIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR A RESIDENTIAL BUILDING IN BASRAH CITY

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  Mujtaba Almudhaffar   |      Ali A. Monem   |      Ahmed H. Naseer   |   

doi: https://doi.org/10.33971/bjes.14.2.18

The present work is aimed to reduce the annual electric energy consumption in a residential building in Basrah city through introducing a standardized rule for the annual electrical consumption for cooling and heating purposes. This work will concentrate on all parameters which help to go toward the optimum use of a thermally efficient house. The building energy analysis program e-Quest was used to simulate the annual energy consumption for a typical residential house built with different types of building materials. Transfer function cooling load calculation was used. The results showed that for the Base- House, the thermal transmission through the walls and roof constitutes more than half of the total peak cooling load. It was found that a house built with thermo-stone causes a 5.9 % reduction in the annual cooling energy consumption, and 12.4 % in the annual heating energy consumption. However, insulating the Base- House causes a significant reduction in the air conditioning equipment capacity and consequently a reduction in cooling energy consumption by 23 %, and reduces the heating energy consumption by 42.8 %. Finally, this work presents useful planning to developed building design that reduces the electrical energy consumption