Contributions of improved technologies to reduced residential energy growth

✍ Scribed by Eric Hirst; Dennis O'Neal

• Book ID: 103900115
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1979
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 651 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7788
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7788(79)90007-0

✦ Synopsis

Energy efficiencies of residential heating and cooling equipment, appliances and structures can be significantly improved by implementing known design changes and by conducting R&D programs to develop advanced systems. These design changes are likely to be cost-effective for typical American housholds.

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) residential energy use simulation model is used to evaluate the national energy and direct economic effects of implementing the conservation programs in the proposed National Energy Plan and offering to the market advanced technologies currently being developed by private industry and the Federal government. These changes are likely to cut residential energy use by more than 63.3 ×10 is J between now and the year 2000. The present worth of the fuel bill reductions (at a real interest rate of 8%) is $26.7 billion greater than the present worth of the extra capital cost associated with improved equipment, appliances, and structures.