The impact of Bonneville's model conservation standards on the energy efficiency of new home construction

Technical Report · Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5427824

Brown, M A; Kolb, J O; White, D L ^[1]; Baylon, D ^[2]; Haeri, M H ^[3]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
2. Ecotope, Inc., Seattle, WA (United States)
3. Central Maine Power Co., Augusta, ME (United States) ERCE, Inc., Portland, OR (United States)

This evaluation assesses the impacts resulting from the establishment of Model Conversation Standards (MCS) for single-family home construction in the Pacific Northwest. It seeks to analyze how far Bonneville Power Administration's MCS programs have advanced construction practices in the region. The two MCS programs studied here are: (1) the Super Good Cents (SGC) Program--a marketing program administered by public and private utilities to promote energy efficient practices within Bonneville's service territory; and, (2) the early Adopter (EA) Program--a code program adopted and administrated by local governments to promote energy efficient practices within the Bonneville service territory. The analysis compares three categories of electrically heated homes built in 1987: SGC, EA, and non-MCS homes. These, in turn, are compared with homes built between 1976 and 1984, prior to the regionwide implementation of the MCS, that constitute the control group for Bonneville's Residential Standards Demonstration Program (RSDP). The evaluation is comprised of four interrelated components: (1) an analysis of general housing and occupant characteristics, (2) a construction characteristics analysis, (3) a performance analysis based on simulations, and (4) an analysis of energy use based on electricity billing data. 49 refs., 14 figs., 65 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5427824
• Report Number(s): ORNL/CON-310; ON: DE91018933
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
CONSTRUCTION
EVALUATION
HOUSES
BUILDING CODES
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
EVALUATED DATA
OCCUPANTS
HUMAN FACTORS
SURVEYS
AIR INFILTRATION
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
DATA COMPILATION
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
FLOORS
HEAT LOSSES
HEAT PUMPS
HOUSEHOLDS
SPACE HVAC SYSTEMS
STANDARDS
USES
VENTILATION
WINDOWS
BUILDINGS
DATA
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY LOSSES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
INFORMATION
LOSSES
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
OPENINGS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
SIMULATION
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
320100* - Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization- Buildings
298000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Consumption & Utilization