Cooperation and Community Conservation : The Hood River Conservation Project.

Technical Report · Mon Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1987

OSTI ID:5763836

Hirst, Eric

The Hood River Conservation Project (HRCP) was intended to test the reasonable upper limits of a residential weatherization program. This research and demonstration project installed as many cost-justified energy-conservation measures in as many electrically heated homes in Hood River as possible. The measures were aimed at the building shell to reduce electricity use for space heating and at water-heating efficiency; no heating or water heating equipment was replaced. The Project had two parts. One was the weatherization of Hood River homes. Energy audits were performed and measures were installed between fall 1983 and the end of 1985. The other was the research and supporting data collection, which began a year before field activity started and continued for more than a year after measures were installed. This research was critical to the Project's success because HRCP was designed to provide information on the appropriate role of Pacific Northwest utilities in securing ''conservation resources.'' This report summarizes both elements. Topics discussed include the background and objectives of HRCP, the Project's design and data resources, implementation and marketing efforts, household participation in the Project, weatherization measures installed, levels and changes in electricity use, Project cost-effectiveness, and several supplemental studies that used HRCP data to address issues beyond the scope of the original Project. 58 refs., 20 figs., 22 tabs.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Bonneville Power Administration
• DOE Contract Number: AC79-83BP11287
• OSTI ID: 5763836
• Report Number(s): DOE/BP-11287-18; ON: DE88003274
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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