Evaluation efforts of utilities with active home energy audit programs were reviewed to provide insights into the operations and effectiveness of existing utility home energy audit programs. About half the utilities contacted had little or no evaluation activity. Of those with evaluation...

The Minnesota Energy Agency and the Department of Administration sponsored workshops for boiler operators in 1979. The workshops, attended by engineers from state-owned facilities and from private buisnesses, dealt with improvements to fuel/air ratios for large gas and oil-fired boilers.

The number, scope, effects, and costs of electric-utility demand-side management (DSM) programs are growing rapidly in the United States. Utilities, their regulators, and energy policy makers need reliable information on the costs and performance of these programs to make informed decisions. In...

An electric utility can determine the value of demand-side programs (conservation and load management) in its service territory by following a procedure that involves several steps. The first three are general in nature: 1.(1) identify potential markets and end-use technologies to serve these...

Between 1973 and 1980, U.S. energy use grew at an average annual rate that was only one-tenth the pre-embargo rate. This dramatic change in energy growth was caused by a combination of rapidly rising fuel prices, slower economic growth, occasional shortages of fuels, and government and utility...

The Bonneville Power Administration operated an interim Residential Weatherization Program during 1982 and 1983 throughout the Pacific Northwest. The program offered free home energy audits and financial incentives to help pay for installation of recommended retrofit measures in electrically...

We identify behavioral questions that arise with 4 kinds of policy interventions for energy efficiency in buildings: information, incentives, standards, and technological research and development. A general strategy is described for answering such questions by using 6 analytical methods: formal...

Many electric utilities throughout the U.S. prepare and publish integrated resource plans. These long-term plans seek to develop the best mix of demand and supply options to meet customer needs for electric-energy services. Puget Power, a medium-sized utility in western Washington, recently...

This paper examines the effects of government regulatory, incentive and research programs on residential energy use and household economics during the 1977–2000 period. The basis for these evaluations is a detailed engineering-economic model of residential energy use developed at ORNL. Results...

A detailed computer model is developed to calculate energy flows and electricity uses for residential refrigerators. The model is used to evaluate the energy and associated initial cost impacts of alternative designs to reduce refrigerator energy use. Implementing all the changes considered,...