Actual electricity savings for homes retrofit by the BPA Residential Weatherization Program

Technical Report · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1985

OSTI ID:5428858

Hirst, E; White, D; Holub, E; Goeltz, R

The Bonneville Power Administration operated an interim Residential Weatherization Program during 1982 and 1983 throughout the Pacific Northwest region of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana. The program offered free home energy audits and financial incentives (usually cash rebates) to help pay for installation of recommended retrofit measures in electrically-heated homes. Almost 104 thousand homes were retrofit during the two years the program operated at a cost to BPA of almost $160 million. The purpose of this study is to analyze actual electricity savings for homes that participated in the BPA program. We examine the electricity savings achieved by these homes and the relationships between actual and predicted savings. In addition, we examine those households with anomalously large and anomalously small (negative) electricity savings. These data are viewed in several ways. First, we develop overall summary statistics, then we compare the characteristics of large and small saver homes in terms of demographic, structure, and retrofit characteristics. Finally, we develop simple regression models that explain variations across households in actual electricity savings. These analyses are conducted separately for the 1982 and 1983 participants.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 5428858
• Report Number(s): ORNL/CON-185; ON: DE85015031
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320101* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Residential Buildings-- (-1987)
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
BUILDINGS
DATA
DATA COMPILATION
ECONOMICS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
EVALUATION
INFORMATION
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
WEATHERIZATION