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Energy is used in buildings mainly to create a pleasant indoor climate, heat water and to run various devices. Three-fourths of the energy assigned to buildings is used residentially and the rest in commercial premises. The dominating post in the former is for heating rooms and water. Over the most recent 30 years household energy use has changed in that an increasing amount is used to operate various devices, at the same time, as these have become increasingly energy efficient. In all the use of electricity for household devices has doubled. The total energy used for heating has remained almost the same, even though the space has increased drastically.
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Swedish Energy Agency, Energy in Sweden, 2008.
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Ibid., Fig. 13.
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Hedberg, L. et al. Rum för framtiden (Space for the future), 2003.
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Green, A. Hållbar energianvändning i svensk stadsplanering, 2006 (Sustainable energy use in Swedish city planning).
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The Hedberg study used Dense and Spread, standing approximately for this study’s Urban Core and Suburban Centers.
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Höjer, M., Gullberg, A., Pettersson, R. (2011). Buildings. In: Images of the Future City. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0653-8_18
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