Utility-impacts assessment of residential passive-solar systems. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6179438

Wood, R A; Siegel, M D

This report summarizes a project undertaken to provide the electric-utility industry with a tool to use in analyzing the advantages and disadvantages for themselves and their customers of passive-solar residential construction within their service areas. A methodology to accomplish this was created and then tested in cooperation with seven participating utilities. Results indicate that passive solar homes and well-insulated homes are more economic to both utilities and homeowners than conventional homes insulated to ASHRAE 90-75 standards, still the norm for building construction in many parts of the country. Further indications are that passive-solar homes may have lower life-cycle costs for heating and cooling than well-insulated homes in areas of the country where the annual heating load predominates over the annual cooling load, and where there is an adequate amount of sunshine during the heating season. The methodology developed also has the capability of simulating and comparing the performance of a wide variety of non-solar electrical heating and cooling systems. As a result, it can be adapted by utilities for a broad range of residential energy analyses.

• Research Organization: JBF Scientific Corp., Wilmington, MA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6179438
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-3092-SY; ON: DE83902642
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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