Residential demand for energy. Volume 2. Estimates of residential stocks of energy-using capital (revised)
A data base containing stocks of energy using capital in the residential sector was reconstructed in this project. This report explains the need for this effort and describes the methods which were employed to improve some original data. The old data set had been produced in a study for EPRI, The Residential Demand for Energy: Estimates of Residential Stocks of Energy Using Capital, and had been constructed using sensible techniques but several apparent flaws were discovered. One set of series, from the magazine, Merchandising Week, which were key inputs to the original methodology were found to be an unreliable source of saturation data for certain appliances. Where problems were found with the Merchandising Week data, the series were revised if the overall integrity of the series could be maintained. When this was not possible, census data, which were used to benchmark all the series, were interpolated and the Merchandising Week data were discarded. The new data on stocks of residential energy using capital constitutes the best source of appliance data with which to model the residential sector's energy demands. Direct ownership data, as opposed to saturation rates, would be more valuable to the modeler, but no efforts have ever been made to gather those series.
- Research Organization:
- Data Resources, Inc., Lexington, MA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6778076
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-EA-1572(Vol.2)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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