Economic incentives for military housing residents to conserve utilities. Master's thesis

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:6549035

Aasland, R L

The literature reviewed provides strong evidence that individually metering resident utilities provides an estimated 10 - 35 percent utility reductions simply by providing a financial incentive for tenants to conserve utilities. The two key aspects of individual metering are, the financial incentives for tenants to conserve utilities and the ability to hold tenants responsible for consumed utilities through accurate utility meter readings. The five alternatives for the conservation of utilities in military housing proposed by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Installations and Housing) are reevaluated in this thesis. When evaluated from the tenants' perspective, the cost effectiveness prioritization of the five proposed DoD alternatives is reversed. DoD chose building and equipment improvement as the most cost effective way to conserve utilities but this alternative is only a half measure which ignores economic incentives for the tenants to conserve utilities.... Utilities, Conservation, Incentives, Electricity, Gas, Water, Master-metering, Individual-metering, Sub-metering.

• Research Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6549035
• Report Number(s): AD-A-261974/0/XAB
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Master's thesis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
ENERGY CONSERVATION
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
MILITARY FACILITIES
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
BUILDINGS
CONSTRUCTION
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
FINANCIAL DATA
GAS METERS
HOUSES
MASTER METERING
POWER METERS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
STATISTICAL DATA
US DOD
DATA
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
INFORMATION
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
METERING
METERS
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NUMERICAL DATA
POWER
RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
US ORGANIZATIONS
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