Electricity savings one to three years after participation in the BPA residential weatherization program

Technical Report · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6046973

Goeltz, R; Hirst, E; Trumble, D

During 1982 and 1983, the Bonneville Power Administration operated an interim Residential Weatherization Program throughout the four-state Pacific Northwest region. Households that participated in the program received free home energy audits and financial assistance (usually cash rebates) to help pay for installation of retrofit measures in their homes. Almost 104 thousand homes were retrofit during the two years that the program operated; BPA's cost to run the program totaled almost $160 million. The purpose of these update is to estimate electricity savings both one and two year after the interim program ended. This update is intended to determine whether program-induced electricity savings change over time. Therefore, an additional year of electricity billing data (1984/85) was collected for samples of participant and nonparticipant households. Complete data are available for 850 program participants and 280 nonparticipants, about 85% of the sample used in the original evaluation. These 15% were ''lost'' because of household moves, changes in participation status for some nonparticipants, and because of errors in the billing data. Daily temperature data for the 32 weather stations and recent changes in residential electricity prices were also obtained for this update.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6046973
• Report Number(s): ORNL/CON-194; ON: DE86009999
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320101* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Residential Buildings-- (-1987)
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
BUILDINGS
DEGREE DAYS
EFFICIENCY
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
ENERGY EFFICIENCY
EVALUATION
FEDERAL REGION X
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NORTH AMERICA
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
USA
WEATHER
WEATHERIZATION