Energy end-use characterization at Fort Hood, Texas

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:433779

Akbari, H; Konopacki, S J ^[1]; Lister, L D; DeBaillie, L P ^[2]

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1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
2. Army Construction Engineering Research Lab., Champaign, IL (United States)

This paper discusses the application of a national laboratory`s end-use disaggregation algorithm (EDA) to a Department of Defense (DOD) installation and presents hourly reconciled end-use data for all major building types and end-uses. The goals of the effort were to develop an energy data base by building type and by end use for DOD facilities and to enhance the DOD energy office`s ability to track energy use by end use. The authors initially focused on achieving these objectives and pilot-testing the methodology at Fort Hood, Texas. Fort Hood is located near the town of Killeen and, with more than 5,000 buildings, was determined to have representative samples of nearly all of the major building types in use on DOD installations. More than 20 prototypes were developed for all major building types. Up to 11 end uses were considered for each prototype, consisting of 9 electric and 2 gas; however, only the electric end uses were reconciled against measured electricity-use data and weather conditions. The EDA was applied to 10 separate feeders from the three substations at Fort Hood. The results from the analyses of these 10 feeders were extrapolated to estimate energy use by building type and end use for the entire installation and validate the results with an independent utility`s billing data for electricity use for the installation. The results show that administration, residential, and barracks buildings are the largest consumers of electricity for a total of 250 GWh per year (74% of the Fort Hood annual consumption of 330 GWh).

• OSTI ID: 433779
• Report Number(s): CONF-960606--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
DIAGRAMS
ENERGY AUDITS
ENERGY DEMAND
HOUSES
MILITARY FACILITIES
OFFICE BUILDINGS
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS