Residential electric heating and cooling: total cost of service

Conference · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6366389

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

The only widely used electric technologies for supplying space heating and cooling services in the U.S. are electric resistance heating, vapor-compression air conditioning, and electric heat pumps. Electric storage heating and bivalent (dual-fuel) resistance systems are widely used in Europe and bivalent heat pumps have had some commerical success in the U.S. Other technologies such as storage air conditioners and solar/resistance and solar-assisted heat pump systems are at the prototype stage, or just entering the market. This paper reports the findings of a study at ANL to evaluate and compare the total costs of supplying space heating and cooling services with these alternative technologies. Under the study method, 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-independent) elctric 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: 6366389
• Report Number(s): CONF-790132-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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