<p>The company Sol & Energiteknik wanted to examine the possibility to make a standard</p><p>house totally energy independent. Based upon this I have, during the spring of 2007,</p><p>examined the possibilities available at the market today through litterature studies, contact</p><p>with several companies and reading reports at the internet.</p><p>The first thing to examine has been to determine the energy consumption for a standard</p><p>house, and find out if there are better technologies to be used for energy conservation.</p><p>My conclusion in this matter is that there are possibilities today for building a house more</p><p>energy efficient.</p><p>When I had reached the point at which my design for the house was decided, I also had</p><p>to choose the different products to use to produce energy as well as to store that energy.</p><p>To produce heat and electricity to the house I decided to use a wind turbine and a solar</p><p>water heater.</p><p>The most difficult part of designing a house that is energy independent is that the</p><p>produced energy must be stored somehow. Storing the heat is relatively easy beacuse the</p><p>heat can be stored in a large water tank. The electricity is a bigger problem beacuse it</p><p>must be stored in batteries, which today are too expensive to be used in a standard house.</p><p>In the future producing and storing hydrogen might be used to produce electricity, but</p><p>today that technology is both expensive and not tested enough.</p><p>My final conclusion is that a standard house can not be built to be totally energy</p><p>independent today, unless it is very expensive to connect the house to the electricity</p><p>network. As an alternative solution I came up with a proposal for a house which is</p><p>connected to the electricity network and have some amount of own produced energy.</p><p>This house prooved to be a good investment if you choose to build it today, and it could</p><p>be a very good investment in the long run beacuse energy prices increase every year.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:hh-757 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Lundgren, Valter |
| Publisher | Halmstad University, School of Business and Engineering (SET), Högskolan i Halmstad/Sektionen för Ekonomi och Teknik (SET) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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