Chapter 11: Sample Design Cross-Cutting Protocol. The Uniform Methods Project: Methods for Determining Energy Efficiency Savings for Specific Measures

Technical Report · Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1399081· OSTI ID:1399081

Kurnik, Charles W ^[1]; Khawaja, M. Sami ^[2]; Rushton, Josh ^[2]; Keeling, Josh ^[2]

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1. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. The Cadmus Group, Portland, OR (United States)

Evaluating an energy efficiency program requires assessing the total energy and demand saved through all of the energy efficiency measures provided by the program. For large programs, the direct assessment of savings for each participant would be cost-prohibitive. Even if a program is small enough that a full census could be managed, such an undertaking would almost always be an inefficient use of evaluation resources. The bulk of this chapter describes methods for minimizing and quantifying sampling error. Measurement error and regression error are discussed in various contexts in other chapters.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1399081
• Report Number(s): NREL/SR-7A40-68567
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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