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, Rhode Island (NUWC). The purpose of the report was to review options for metering electricity and steam used in the NUWC … the utility costs other than accounting for actual consumption and demand. Unit costs for both steam and electricity are … compound, and to make recommendations to NUWC for implementation under a follow-on project. An additional NUWC concern is a …
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buildings. The analysis uses the data presented in the report, Economic Analysis: In Support of Interim Energy Conservation … Standards for New Federal Residential Buildings (June 1988)-to be referred to as the EASIECS report. The reassessment differs … buildings rather than assuming a hypothetical 25-year lifetime. In modeling social preferences decision analysis techniques are …
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the supply and delivery of electricity (i.e., the production, transmission, and distribution system) and the data …
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savings per participant, and utility costs per participant. At an average cost of 3.9 C/kWh, these programs are judged to be … cost-effective when compared to avoided costs in their areas. We critically examine participation rates, energy savings per …
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and gas savings (thus, it was to be fuel- blind''). The allocated cost of conservation services for each fuel source …, however, should be cost effective. It was to be offered to those utility customers at or below 200 percent of the federal … unit cost. The program plans ranged from the offering of low-cost heating, water heating and infiltration measures …
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electric power plants. The effects of these bills on electricity costs depend on features of the bills, on the mix of …-specific estimates of the effects of different legislation on electricity costs. This paper presents sample results from a larger …, and adopted in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1991, may have less effect than expected on the cost of complying with the …
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method is required by which the least-cost means of obtaining the desired space conditioning of a building can be estimated …. In other words, a life-cycle cost model must be developed to simulate the energy-related building-design decisions that … would take place if resources were being allocated efficiently. The cost-minimizing model must incorporate technically …
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peak demands 5% and reduced electricity sales 1% that year. Utility projections suggest that these reductions will increase … recoupling uses statistical models, based on historical data, that explain retail electricity sales as functions of the number of … utility customers, winter and summer weather, the condition of the local economy, electricity price, and perhaps a few other …
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programs. Without advanced metering, utilities cannot support time-differentiated rates or collect the detailed customer usage … collect or properly price electricity usage handicaps the success of almost all efficiency and demand response options …. Historically, implementation of the advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) necessary for the successful efficiency and demand …
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participants came to the following conclusions and recommendations: Current energy models are already complex, and it is already … with an exchange of students would be a relative low-cost way to start such collaboration. It would be essential to focus …
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