ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF BUILDINGS WITH A FOCUS ON MUNICIPALITIES

Abstract

Due to the climate situation, the EU policy, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, it is necessary for municipalities to take a conceptual approach to their energy sector. A big topic of this issue and also the subject of this paper is the energy optimization of municipal buildings. The reality in the Czech Republic is that municipalities, with a few exceptions, do not combine data on energy and water consumption with the actual technical condition of the buildings concerned, so they have no basis for decision-making and individual projects are often dealt with in an unconceptual and ad-hoc manner. The methodology is based on an analysis of the situation in the South Moravian Region and a questionnaire survey of the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic. This article identifies the key areas that affect the energy efficiency of buildings and therefore specific data should be collected from these areas to form the basis for setting up the energy management of the city.Due to the climate situation, the EU policy, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, it is necessary for municipalities to take a conceptual approach to their energy sector. A big topic of this issue and also the subject of this paper is the energy optimization of municipal buildings. The reality in the Czech Republic is that municipalities, with a few exceptions, do not combine data on energy and water consumption with the actual technical condition of the buildings concerned, so they have no basis for decision-making and individual projects are often dealt with in an unconceptual and ad-hoc manner. The methodology is based on an analysis of the situation in the South Moravian Region and a questionnaire survey of the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic. This article identifies the key areas that affect the energy efficiency of buildings and therefore specific data should be collected from these areas to form the basis for setting up the energy management of the city.