Analysis on energy consumption of rural building based on survey in northern China

Rural energy consumption is an important component of national energy consumption and plays an important role in rural areas and ecological environment developments. This paper investigated energy structure and energy usage behavior in rural areas of northern China based on the analysis of large-scale field survey data. The energy consumption structure is composed of the biomass energy and commercial energy, supplemented by two kinds of mutual use of the way. And Low efficient energy usage and poor indoor environment are major problems in this area. Therefore, the reason for the excessive energy consumption is poor thermal performance of construction, lack of planning standards and low energy efficiency. This paper provides new insights for north China's rural energy consumption, it can also provide detail and real data for the local decision makers and other stakeholders to promote energy-saving policy. (C) 2018 International Energy Initiative. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.