Residential electric heating and cooling: total cost of service

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6271537

Asbury, J. G.; Giese, R. F.; Mueller, R. O.

Several technologies under consideration for US heating and cooling applications are already available from European manufacturers. These include storage resistance-heating systems and bivalent (dual-fuel) resistance-heat and heat-pump systems. In addition, electric utilities are testing and evaluating storage air conditioners and solar/resistance and solar-assisted heat-pump systems. A number of these newer technologies offer substantially improved energy efficiency. However, aside from meeting requirements of reliability, maintainability, and consumer comfort, their potential for gaining acceptance among utility planners ultimately will depend upon their overall economic competitiveness relative to conventional systems. Findings of a recent study at Argonne National Lab. to evaluate and compare total costs of supplying space heating and cooling services with these alternative technologies are reported here. Both the utility's cost of service and those device investment and maintenance costs borne directly by the customer were evaluated. Unlike the usual assumption of constant (time-dependent) electric supply costs, the study used a detailed cost allocation model to calculate the utility capital and operating costs to meet device-specific loads.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6271537
• Report Number(s): CONF-7809138-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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