The thesis deals with systems and possibilities for reducing energy needs in a family house. The search section is devoted to passive and low-energy houses, the possibilities of using rainwater and gray water, heat recovery with controlled ventilation, heat pumps and photovoltaics. The practical part presents the design calculations and an indicative purchase price and return calculation.

The main goal of this thesis called Energy Management in Public Sector is to analyze the current state of the facilities and premises of Prostějov municipality with the emphasis on power and gas supplies and the prospective changes in energy consumption. The first part of the thesis focuses on defining energy management, the role of energy manager, renewable and non-renewable energy sources, and relevant Czech and European legislation. Furthermore, it covers the strategic documents pertaining to energy management such as state energy policy, energy audits and energy performance certificates. The second part represents the practical part which is devoted to the implementation of energy management and introduction of energy management software for controlling, measuring and evaluating consumption levels, and attempts to find cheaper power and gas supplies. The data collected in the practical part of the thesis serve as a basis for a proposal ensuring power savings and convenient supplies for facilities operated or funded by Prostějov municipality.

This diploma thesis deals with saving drinking water supplied in the operation panel house type T06B . Saving solutions drinking water is proposed the use of gray waste water where their collection and subsequent purification will lead to further use. Treated gray wastewater is subsequently used primarily to flush fixtures. For different height levels of the type of building are designed with individual technological units . The proposal includes an assessment of saving drinking water , determination of operating costs and expenses for the purchase of technological equipment .

This thesis is focused on study of global imbalances as they appear in these days. The deepening global financial imbalance as an impact of international capital flows is considered to be one of the most important. The study is also focused on other tendencies that could possibly endanger the future prosperity of the Euro-Atlantic civilization from the view of savings, consumption and problems with accumulation of capital regarding the demographic aging of the society. All these aspects are now more visible because of the financial, economic and on-going debt crisis. The situation looks unsustainable and needs changes that could be essential for avoiding a major decline of the Europian society in the view of the rest of the world.

Legal instruments of energy efficiency Abstract and key words The diploma thesis deals with energy efficiency as a unique source of energy. The subject of this thesis is to specify key legal instruments of energy efficiency, i.e. conceptual, administrative and economical instruments. The diploma thesis is divided into five chapters. In the introductory chapter, being called Energy Policy, there is a brief outline of the background of energy politics on both the international and EU level, including environmental protection. This introductory chapter also ranks the Czech Republic among countries with high energy performance. Energy efficiency is the opportunity to lower its energy performance. The second chapter, Legal Instruments of Energy Efficiency, defines legal instruments of energy efficiency as a part of environmental protection. This chapter is a general one; the instruments are concretized in the following chapters. In addition, this chapter focuses on the principle of sustainable development, as well as issues related to human factor, climate conditions and rebound effect. The third chapter, called Conceptual Instruments, provides further information relating to conceptual strategies of energy efficiency. For the EU conceptions, key directives are mentioned to regulate energy efficiency, namely the...

A b s tra c t The recent discussion of the European Parliam ent, member states, and citizens triggered the question whether there is s till a need for bi-annual clock shifting from the perspective of energy savings. Employing the difference-in-differences method on hourly data on electricity consumption between 2006 and 2017, the study con­ cludes th a t daylight saving tim e policy reduces aggregate electricity consumption by 0.35 % in the Czech Republic. Moreover, daylight saving tim e leads to 1% savings on domestic residential electricity consumption. Overall, daylight saving tim e increases electricity consumption in the morning, bu t decreases electricity consumption in the evening by greater amount. We have estimated th a t more than 65 % of to ta l electricity savings attributable to daylight saving tim e arose from effect of the daylight saving tim e on residential electricity consumption. 1

This thesis deals with global imbalances in the world economy. Chapter one focuses on balance of payments theory, savings and investment. It also specifies global imbalances and presents the most important periods of their development. Chapter two analyses main causes of global imbalances and discusses the relationship between imbalances and current economic crisis. Chapter three describes current development of global imbalances, anticipated development in future and analyses possible solutions at national and international level.

The issue of low energy construction is currently actual and often discussed topic. The main reason is continuously increasing consumption and price of energy. Additionally, projections show this trend is not going to rapidly change in the upcoming years. The construction of buildings in low energy standard should become one of the most significant sources in energy savings in European Union for the upcoming period. Low energy constructions in contrast with standard constructions are distinguished not only because of low energy consumption and lower operating expenses but also for its favorable impact on the environment. The main purpose of this thesis will be the assessment of economical effectiveness of current low energy constructions and underline the importance of energy saving constructions by using LCA method as one of the possibilities in increasing the quality of environment.

This master thesis is looking into problems of financing of energy saving arrangements in residential buildings. The paper concentrates on an analysis of all available sources of financing. After a brief characteristic of basic ways of financing, including Czech and foreign models, it introduces closer only a selection of the available programs, grant titles and commercial products. Then the attention is paid to more specific programs and products from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. This paper applies their program parameters to a model object of the residential building and assesses each and every option, using selected economical standards. Based on these parameters, it appraises an economical effectiveness of the investment in individual variations of financing from the point of view of an investor and a state, expressed with the price of a unit saved CO2 emission. By combining both preferential variations of an investor and a state, an optimal variation of financing for the model object is found.

This diploma thesis deals with consumer behavior on the energy market, namely with household energy consumption. It focuses on identification of motivational factors which influence the consumer to consume less energy and which influence shopping behaviour on this market. In order to identify these factors and explore more data related to energy savings, a combination of qualitative and quantitative research was used. Sample size of the in-depth interviews was 30 householders, sample size of the questionnaire survey was 304 diverse household members. Based on the results and with the help of the fractional goals, a main goal was achieved, which consisted of marketing recommendations for consulting companies that provide energy consulting to increase both quantitative and financial energy savings for their customers.