Benchmarking Residential Energy Use [electronic resource]
Interest in rating the real-life energy performance of buildings has increased in recent years, and real-life efficiency performance rating of buildings is important for any sustainable energy future. Work on rating commercial buildings energy performance has shown important promise for helping incr...
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
United States. Department of Energy ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
2001.
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| Summary: | Interest in rating the real-life energy performance of buildings has increased in recent years, and real-life efficiency performance rating of buildings is important for any sustainable energy future. Work on rating commercial buildings energy performance has shown important promise for helping increase commercial sector energy efficiency. Since residential buildings account for over half of all buildings-related energy use in the US, methods to rate residential energy performance should also be important. Initial work on the 1993 Residential Energy Consumption Survey has been conducted to examine issues and approaches for residential energy performance rating tools, and some of these issues and approaches are presented in this paper. A method is presented for developing an energy performance rating or ranking procedure for residences in the US based on regression analyses covering the entire residential sector, which covers mobile homes to apartments in large buildings. The same approach could be applied to subsets, such as single family detached houses. Significant additional work on the best methods to use to rate residential energy performance, causes of high and low performance, and other applications of these methods is needed. Nuclear Power Plants. |
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| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 01/10/2001. "p00-107615" 2000 ACEEE Buildings Summer Study, No conference location provided, No conference dates provided. MacDonald, J.M. |
| Physical Description: | 12 pages : digital, PDF file. |