Energy savings one and two years after participation in Minnesota home energy audit and retrofit loan programs

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6245126

Hirst, E; Goeltz, R

Northern States Power (NSP), the largest utility in Minnesota, operates several residential energy conservation programs. This report updates a 1983 detailed quantitative evaluation of two of these programs. The Minnesota Energy Conservation Service (MECS), Minnesota's version of the federal Residential Conservation Service, provides home energy audits and related services to households who live in structures with four or fewer dwelling units and pay gas or electricity bills to a utility participating in MECS. Between April 1981 and December 1982, NSP conducted almost 12 thousand audits. The data collected for this evaluation are described briefly. The factors that affect household energy use and how these factors might be included in models are discussed, from which estimates of program energy savings are derived. These sections focus primarily on differences between the present work and the earlier analysis of the NSP programs. The results of this analysis on total and net natural gas savings are presented.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84OR21400
• OSTI ID: 6245126
• Report Number(s): ORNL/CON-168; ON: DE85004770
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320101* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Residential Buildings-- (-1987)
AUDITS
BUILDINGS
DATA ACQUISITION
ENERGY AUDITS
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
FEDERAL REGION V
FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
FINANCING
HOUSEHOLDS
MINNESOTA
NORTH AMERICA
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
RETROFITTING
USA