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Conventional fuel displacement by residential wood use

Journal Article · · Forest Products Journal; (United States)
OSTI ID:7235671
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  1. East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC (United States). School of Human Environmental Science
Explored in this research was the contribution of woodburning to reductions in the consumption of natural gas, fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and electricity for residential space heating. This secondary analysis of survey data was from a nationwide representative sample of 5,682 households collected by the Department of Energy in the 1984--1985 Residential Energy Consumption Survey. A nonlinear regression model was used to estimate conventional fuel consumption for space heating and to estimate conventional fuel displacement by wood heating systems. For the entire sample of woodburning families, household energy displacement was: natural gas, 80; electricity, 70; fuel oil, 60; and LPG, 60. Estimated aggregate savings in conventional fuel expenditure was $3 billion. Conventional fuel displacement varied by type of main heating fuel and equipment for three subsets of the sample: main conventional/auxiliary wood heating; main wood/auxiliary conventional heating; and main wood/no auxiliary heating. Implications to energy policy making and the forest products industry are discussed.
OSTI ID:
7235671
Journal Information:
Forest Products Journal; (United States), Journal Name: Forest Products Journal; (United States) Vol. 44:1; ISSN FPJOAB; ISSN 0015-7473
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English