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Book The End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book The End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by Donald L. Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) began the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP) in 1983. Prior to beginning the ELCAP, there was an abundance of information regarding total power consumption for residential structures in the Pacific Northwest and limited information regarding power consumption by various end uses. The purpose of ELCAP is to collect actual end-use load data from both residential and commercial buildings in the region. This report presents the methodology used in several statistical modeling studies carried out on the ELCAP data between 1986 and 1989. These studies involve the thermal characterization of homes and comparisons of building techniques and conservation measures by residential and commercial consumers within the Bonneville service area of the Pacific Northwest. Each data gathering technique was successful in extracting a specific set of consumer-related energy use information. The analytical techniques used in these studies are compiled in this methodology report and are to be used in conjunction with Volume 2 -- Analysis. This should facilitate ease of reference use during future analyses. It is anticipated that the data gathered on participating consumers could potentially be used to aid in decisions regarding the management of the Northwest's electrical energy resources. 7 refs., 6 figs., 2 tabs.

Book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by C. C. Connor and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commercial Equipment Loads

Download or read book Commercial Equipment Loads written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of Energy Resources of the Bonneville Power Administration is generally responsible for the agency's power and conservation resource planning. As associated responsibility which supports a variety of office functions is the analysis of historical trends in and determinants of energy consumption. The Office of Energy Resources' End-Use Research Section operates a comprehensive data collection program to provide pertinent information to support demand-side planning, load forecasting, and demand-side program development and delivery. Part of this on-going program is known as the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP), an effort designed to collect electricity usage data through direct monitoring of end-use loads in buildings. This program is conducted for Bonneville by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory. This report provides detailed information on electricity consumption of miscellaneous equipment from the commercial portion of ELCAP. Miscellaneous equipment includes all commercial end-uses except heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and central lighting systems. Some examples of end-uses covered in this report are office equipment, computers, task lighting, refrigeration, and food preparation. Electricity consumption estimates, in kilowatt-hours per square food per year, are provided for each end-use by building type. The following types of buildings are covered: office, retail, restaurant, grocery, warehouse, school, university, and hotel/motel. 6 refs., 35 figs., 12 tabs.

Book End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) is conducting a large end-use data acquisition program in an effort to understand how energy is utilized in buildings with permanent electric space heating equipment in the Pacific Northwest. The initial portion of effort, known as the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP), was conducted for Bonneville by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL). The collection of detailed end-use data provided an opportunity to analyze the amount of energy consumed by both refrigerators and separate freezers units located in residential buildings. By obtaining this information, the uncertainty of long- term regional end-use forecasting can be improved and potential utility marketing programs for new appliances with a reduced overall energy demand can be identified. It was found that standby loads derived from hourly averages between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. reflected the minimum consumption needed to maintain interior refrigerator temperatures at a steady-state condition. Next, an average 24-hour consumption that included cooling loads from door openings and cooling food items was also determined. Later, analyses were conducted to develop a model capable of predicting refrigerator standby loads and 24-hour consumption for comparison with national refrigerator label ratings. Data for 140 residential sites with a refrigeration end-use were screened to develop a sample of 119 residences with pure refrigeration for use in this analysis. To identify those refrigerators that were considered to be pure (having no other devices present on the circuit) in terms of their end-use classification, the screening procedure used a statistical clustering technique that was based on standby loads with 24-hour consumption. 5 refs., 18 figs., 4 tabs.

Book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP) conducted for the Bonneville Power Administration by Pacific Northwest Laboratory was initiated to support both conservation assessment and load forecasting missions. This report documents a study of the heat loss characteristics of the ELCAP residential buildings. The basic objectives of this analysis are to: calculate theoretical residential heat loss rate based on the onsite inspection data for use in support of subsequent analyses, determine the distribution of insulation levels and heat loss potential as a function of construction vintage and climate zone, support use of the ELCAP Residential Standards Demonstration Program (RSDP) houses for analysis of the impact of Model Conservation Standards (MCS) by determining the degree to which their construction conforms to the design specifications, and test the specification of current code used in the RSDP experiment. The analysis of the heat loss characteristics of the ELCAP Residential sample leads to several conclusions based on the building-level structural characteristics. These include: the distribution of overall residential heat loss potentials with construction vintage indicates a strong tendency toward lower heat loss potential in newer houses; there is a clear trend toward increasing occupied floor space in newer houses; the data show a steady increase in overall insulation levels in more recently constructed houses; heated basements tend to be concentrated in the two colder climate zones, there is a steady decline in occurrence of crawlspaces and increase in occurrence of heated basements with severity of climate; the distribution of foundation types in the sample does not strongly influence the general trend to higher insulation levels in newer houses and houses in colder climates. 21 refs., 36 figs., 28 tabs.

Book The Quality of the ELCAP End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program Engineering Data Set

Download or read book The Quality of the ELCAP End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program Engineering Data Set written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) began the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP) in 1983. Prior to beginning ELCAP, there was an abundance of information regarding total power consumption for residential structures in the Pacific Northwest, through billing records for example, and limited information regarding power consumption by various end uses (such as hot water, heating and cooling). This program, conducted for Bonneville by the Pacific Northwest Laboratory, involves collecting and analyzing hourly end-use data in commercial and residential buildings in the Pacific Northwest. The purpose of this document is to provide background information to analyses that may use ELCAP data. In general, the ELCAP data set is extremely high in quality, but analysts should be aware of potential problems that could exist with a data set of this size. This report describes the quality of the ELCAP data and emphasizes the guidelines for data review along with limitations and suggestions regarding engineering and characteristics data including missing data values, procedures for time-stamp assignments, and incomplete integration periods. 3 figs.

Book End use Load and Conservation Assessment Program

Download or read book End use Load and Conservation Assessment Program written by S. D. Tomich and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Significant ELCAP Analysis Results

Download or read book Significant ELCAP Analysis Results written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the End-Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program (ELCAP) since 1983 at Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) has been eventful and somewhat tortuous. The birth pangs of a data set so large and encompassing as this have been overwhelming at times. The early adolescent stage of data set development and use has now been reached and preliminary results of early analyses of the data are becoming well known. However, the full maturity of the data set and the corresponding wealth of analytic insights are not fully realized. This document is in some sense a milestone in the brief history of the program. It is a summary of the results of the first five years of the program, principally containing excerpts from a number of previous reports. It is meant to highlight significant accomplishments and analytical results, with a focus on the principal results. Many of the results have a broad application in the utility load research community in general, although the real breadth of the data set remains largely unexplored. The first section of the document introduces the data set: how the buildings were selected, how the metering equipment was installed, and how the data set has been prepared for analysis. Each of the sections that follow the introduction summarize a particular analytic result. A large majority of the analyses to date involve the residential samples, as these were installed first and had highest priority on the analytic agenda. Two exploratory analyses using commercial data are included as an introduction to the commercial analyses that are currently underway. Most of the sections reference more complete technical reports which the reader should refer to for details of the methodology and for more complete discussion of the results. Sections have been processed separately for inclusion on the data base.

Book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book End use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by B. A. Ross and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program

Download or read book The End Use Load and Consumer Assessment Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, an objective methodology to characterize air masses for a given locale was developed by Kalkstein and Corrigan (1986). This methodology was used to determine which air masses had the greatest potential for high atmospheric concentrations of sulfur dioxide. Referred to as the temporal synoptic index (TSI), this approach uses a combination of principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis to identify days considered to be meteorologically homogenous. The PCA transforms the original set of intercorrelated meteorological variables into a new set of components that are linear combinations of the original variables. This transformation simplifies the amount of data being processed and eliminates the intercorrelations that exist among weather variables. The next step in the methodology is to apply an objective clustering scheme to the most significant of the transformed variables. This application converts the group's days into meteorologically homogeneous clusters. The work presented in this report is the result of an exploratory study of the application of the TSI approach to the analysis of commercial building energy consumption data. In this study, the hourly HVAC consumption data for four commercial buildings, monitored as part of ELCAP, were analyzed for patterns of consumption by weather day types derived from the TSI methodology. 3 refs., 9 figs., 5 tabs.

Book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis

Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Energy Research Abstracts

Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.