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Financial Indicators Within Energy Efficiency Evaluation

The purpose of this paper is to present a (brief) literature review regarding the economic indicators – financial ratios – in the context of financial evaluation of energy efficiency projects, and in that manner to attempt to answer a research question which reflects upon the standard and non-standard methods of financial analysis within energy efficiency domain. The answers are given through desk research and literature review. A handful of frequently used measures of financial viability of energy efficiency improvements were found and presented ; most of them tend to include the time-value of money into the equation, hence discount rates are particularly important for the analyses.

Financial evaluation, energy efficiency, indicators, ratio analysis

This work has been fully supported by Croatian Science Foundation under Grant No. IP-2016-06-8350 „Methodological Framework for Efficient Energy Management by Intelligent Data Analytics“ (MERIDA). http://www.efos.unios.hr/merida/en/