Climate change impacts on heating and cooling energy demand in residential building units. Application in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract The present study aims to evaluate the effect of climate change on heating and cooling energy needs a residential building unit, located in city Thessaloniki, Greece. Future weather files have been generated using both statistical dynamical downscaling methods. In first case, Meteonorm generator was used generate future file, while for dynamic approach, Hadley Regional Model 3 (HRM3), coupled with Climate employed. datasets then as an input parameter performance simulations unit Energy Plus. For all examined datasets, simulation results show decrease use, that is strongly counterbalanced by rise demand.