## 3 Results and Discussion
### Effect of the Climate Change Scenarios for 2050 and 2100
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Energy Consumption Saving**} & \multirow{2}{*}{**City**} & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Energy Consumption Saving**} \\
**City** & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**(kWh/Year)**} & & & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**(kWh/Year)**} & \\ \cline{2-7}  & **Cooling** & **Heating** & **Total** & & **Cooling** & **Heating** & **Total** \\ \hline Badajoz & 902.49 & 411.35 & 1313.84 & Orense & 284.66 & 595.20 & 879.87 \\ Barcelona & 714.91 & 464.76 & 1179.68 & Oviedo & 64.36 & 755.43 & 819.79 \\ Bilbao & 395.31 & 535.87 & 931.18 & Palencia & 500.99 & 820.17 & 1321.16 \\ Burgos & 415.61 & 860.75 & 1276.36 & Pamplona & 440.43 & 748.66 & 1189.09 \\ Caceres & 776.91 & 516.03 & 1292.94 & Pontevedra & 445.74 & 482.17 & 927.91 \\ Cadiz & 811.27 & 319.81 & 1131.08 & Salamanca & 390.13 & 892.13 & 1282.26 \\ Castellon & 899.36 & 364.17 & 1263.54 & San Sebastian & 472.22 & 527.05 & 999.27 \\ Ciudad Real & 719.16 & 554.49 & 1273.65 & Santander & 135.51 & 607.87 & 743.38 \\ Cordoba & 994.97 & 336.18 & 1331.16 & Segovia & 416.58 & 856.25 & 1272.83 \\ Cuenca & 590.98 & 827.62 & 1418.59 & Seville & 1093.08 & 236.42 & 1329.51 \\ Gerona & 691.66 & 545.82 & 1237.49 & Soria & 414.30 & 916.18 & 1330.48 \\ Granada & 735.27 & 582.02 & 1317.28 & Tarragona & 862.89 & 395.20 & 1258.09 \\ Guadalajara & 628.25 & 714.26 & 1342.52 & Teruel & 603.17 & 781.63 & 1384.81 \\ Huelva & 925.19 & 261.64 & 1186.82 & Toledo & 742.89 & 631.15 & 1374.04 \\ Huesca & 643.73 & 665.88 & 1309.61 & Valencia & 860.86 & 368.80 & 1229.66 \\ Jaen & 730.13 & 563.67 & 1293.80 & Valladolidid & 455.27 & 787.40 & 1242.67 \\ La Corüña & 129.65 & 554.39 & 684.04 & Vitoria & 210.59 & 868.95 & 1079.54 \\ Leon & 439.44 & 827.52 & 1266.97 & Zamora & 464.27 & 815.54 & 1279.81 \\ Lerida & 813.96 & 420.82 & 1234.78 & Zaragoza & 661.18 & 571.23 & 1232.41 \\ Logroño & 501.03 & 661.31 & 1162.34 & & & & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table} 
Table 8: Cont. is achieved with low tolerances, the increase in tolerance means a progressive loss of the saving in heating degrees, even increasing heating degrees with respect to the static model. The rise in external temperatures throughout the 21 st century implies that the maximum tolerance interval from which the energy consumption is worse than that of the static model increases. Table 9 represents the average increase or decrease percentages of the energy consumption. The maximum thermal tolerance interval, from which a decrease in total energy consumption is obtained, went from 1.50 \({}^{\circ}\)C in the current scenario to 1.75 \({}^{\circ}\)C in 2050 and 2100 because of the progressive importance of the cooling consumption and of its potential of energy saving with respect to the static setpoint temperature of 26 \({}^{\circ}\)C. Moreover, the rise in thermal tolerance in 0.25 \({}^{\circ}\)C in 2050 and in 2100 presents similar tendencies of percentage increase to those obtained in the current scenario, with an increase between 6.83 and 9.31% in 2050 and between 6.79 and 8.73% in 2100. As a result, the improvement in users' thermal expectations always presents a similar increase tendency of the building energy  
Figure 11: Box-plots with the energy consumption distribution obtained in all cities with each configuration of static setpoint temperatures in the three scenarios (current day, 2050, and 2100). Figure 12: Box-plots of the saving in heating and cooling degrees between adaptive models and the static model in the three scenarios (current day, 2050, and 2100). consumption, although the energy-saving percentages with respect to a static behavior could vary with respect to the future climate change scenarios. A greater awareness of users about the need to establish adaptive limits without tolerance in the use of HVAC systems would therefore ensure both a more sustainable energy performance of buildings and acceptable thermal conditions inside them according to the existing standards of adaptive thermal comfort.