Everyone wins - a program to upgrade energy efficiency in manufactured housing
- Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
- Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR (United States)
- Univ. of Portland, OR (United States)
- Oregon State College, Corvallis, OR (United States)
Other regions might well benefit from this case history, illustrating how a region marshalled its resources to bring manufactured housing--a significant share of its new residential sector--into the modern era of energy efficiency. Everyone was a winner. In the Pacific Northwest, as in many parts of the country, a significant proportion of new homes are HUD-code manufactured, or so-called mobile, homes. About 25% of new single-family houses in the Pacific Northwest are manufactured homes. They represent an even larger share - nearly 40% - of new electrically heated housing in the region, and this share has been growing. When Congress enacted the Pacific Northwest Power Planning Act of 1980, it also permitted the four Northwest states to establish an interstate compact body - the Northwest Power Planning Council - and required the Council to produce an integrated resource plan for the region served by the Bonneville Power Administration, the federal power marketing and transmission agency that operates the region's major transmission grid and sells most of its bulk power. Both the law and the plan charge Bonneville with developing cost-effective programs to save electricity in all end-use sectors through improved energy efficiency.
- OSTI ID:
- 7168515
- Journal Information:
- Electricity Journal; (United States), Vol. 7:2; ISSN 1040-6190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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