Institutional Conservation Programs: situational assessment

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5898615

The Institutional Conservation Program (ICP) is one of several state energy conservation grant programs signed into law as part of the National Energy Conservation Program Act in 1978. This legislation provided grants for Preliminary Energy Audits (PEA's), Energy Audits (EA's), Technical Assistance (TA's) Analyses, and Energy Conservation Measures (ECM's). The PEA is essentially data on energy costs and building type, collected by building administrators and provided to the state office responsible for administering the program. The EA, which can be done by auditors trained by the state in a brief session, was designed to identify possible Operation and Maintenance (O and M) improvements. The TA is a detailed professional analysis of the appropriate capital improvements required to save energy, and the ECM is the actual purchase and installation of the major retrofit items recommended in the TA. At the outset of the program, grants for PEA's, EA's, and TA's were available to school, hospital, local government, and public care buildings; grants for ECM's were also available for schools and hospitals. The present report is a study initiate in 1984 to analyze the direction the program should take. Very briefly, the program was not funded sufficiently to make it an overall success, but several individual grants were successful and are described. (LTN)

• Research Organization: Arawak Consulting Corp., Arlington, VA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-83CE15156
• OSTI ID: 5898615
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE/15156-3; ON: DE85008332
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320100* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Buildings
AUDITS
BUILDINGS
COGENERATION
DEUS
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY AUDITS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
ENERGY SYSTEMS
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
HOSPITALS
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION
LAWS
LEGISLATION
MEDICAL CENTERS
NATIONAL ENERGY ACT
NATIONAL ENERGY CONSERVATION POLICY ACT
NORTH AMERICA
POWER GENERATION
SCHOOL BUILDINGS
STATE GOVERNMENT
STEAM GENERATION
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
USA