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Energy Efficiency Analysis in the Residential Sector of the Urban Area of Canton Saraguro, Ecuador

Abstract:

Energy consumption at a national level shows an important growth, the demographic increase, the sum of the population density, the comfort level and lifestyle attributed by the urban planning conditions of each city, insinuating that day by day we are consumers of resources energy sources, such as electricity, liquefied petroleum gas, and water, which are currently essential to carry out daily activities and the firewood that is still present in the cooking processes in some homes in our environment. In this virtue, this work presents the descriptive-inferential statistical analysis of the energy resources of a certain locality, such as the urban area of the Saraguro canton of the Loja province, Ecuador. This analysis is done to determine the consumption of the four types of energy: electric, LPG, water, and firewood since these are the main energy resources used in this parish. The study is based on door-to-door surveys, they were tabulated, graphed, and interpreted, showing the reality of consumption in the residential sector, thus identifying the greatest energy resource used in homes. Several recommendations based on energy efficiency guidelines are presented that help reduces the consumption of the energy resources in the parish, managing to propose technical–economic solutions for energy saving and efficiency, and as such contributing to the conservation of the environment.