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State of the Art of Energy Efficiency: Future Directions

Edited by Edward Vine, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Drury Crawley, Pacific Northwest Laboratory

In the past ten years, energy conservation efforts have greatly expanded. The buildings sector, which accounts for 20 percent of current U.S. energy consumption, has been the focus of most of these efforts.

Energy-efficiency technologies and programs, resource planning and policymaking, and data collection and analysis methodologies have each played an integral role in promoting energy efficiency. Accordingly, this book provides a useful and practical compilation of the state of the art in these areas.

The chapters in the book--written by leading researchers, program analysts and policymakers--are based on papers prepared for the ACEEE 1990 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. A variety of perspectives are included: design and implementation of government and utility programs; appliance standards; collection and analysis of buildings energy data; and integrated resource planning. In addition, each chapter addresses promising directions for designing and implementing future research and programs for promoting energy efficiency in buildings.

Chapter 1 Integrated Resource Planning for Electric and Gas Utilities by Eric Hirst, Charles Goldman and Mary Ellen Hopkins

Chapter 2 Consideration of Environmental Externality Costs in Electric Utility Resource Selections and Regulation by Richard L. Ottinger

Chapter 3 Electric Utility Conservation Programs: A Review of the Lessons Taught by a Decade of Program Experience by Steven Nadel

Chapter 4 End-Use Load Shape Data Application, Estimation, and Collection by Joseph H. Eto, Hashem Akbari, Robert G. Pratt, and Steven D. Braithwait

Chapter 5 Field Monitoring of Energy Performance in Buildings by Harry Misuriello

Chapter 6 Low-Income Weatherization: Past, Present, and Future by Jeffrey Schlegel, John McBride, Stephen Thomas, and Paul Berkowitz

Chapter 7 U.S. Residential Appliance Energy Efficiency: Present Status and Future Policy Directions by Isaac Turiel, Douglas Berman, Peter Chan, Terry Chan, Jon Koomey, Benoit Lebot, Mark D. Levine, James E. McMahon, Greg Rosenquist, and Steve Stoft

Chapter 8 Looking Beyond Aggregate Household Energy Demand: What Really Happened to Conservation by Andrea Ketoff and Lee Schipper

ISBN 0-918249-11-2

Soft cover, 6" x 9", 287 pp., index, 1991, $28.00

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