Economic evaluation of end-user conservation measures applied to buildings served by a proposed district-heating system

Technical Report · Sat May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5229896

Eksel, M; Sullivan, W G; Pine, G D; Karnitz, M A

The economic implications of applying end-user conservation measures to buildings that are served by a proposed district heating system in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area are examined. End-user conservation is a demand-side conservation strategy typified by changes in building operating procedures and changes in the building shell. District heating with cogeneration is a supply-side conservation method that allows scarce fossil fuels to be more efficiently converted into thermal and electrical energy. Technically, these two conservation methods can be applied simultaneously to a densely populated urban area such as Minneapolis-St. Paul, but the implementation of one tends to reduce the economic feasibility of the other. This analysis suggests that building conservation measures will be difficult to justify economically in buildings that are connected to the proposed Minneapolis-St. Paul system.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-26
• OSTI ID: 5229896
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-8277; ON: DE82016080
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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