End-use energy consumption estimates for U.S. commercial buildings, 1992.
An accurate picture of how energy is used in the nations̀ stock of commercial buildings can serve a variety of program planning and policy needs of the US Department of Energy, utilities, and other groups seeking to improve the efficiency of energy use in the building sector. This report describes a...
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Language: | English |
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Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
1997.
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Physical Description: | 154 pages |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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An accurate picture of how energy is used in the nations̀ stock of commercial buildings can serve a variety of program planning and policy needs of the US Department of Energy, utilities, and other groups seeking to improve the efficiency of energy use in the building sector. This report describes an estimation of energy consumption by end use based upon data from the 1992 Commercial Building Energy Consumption Survey (CBECS). The methodology used in the study combines elements of engineering simulations and statistical analysis to estimate end-use intensities for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting, refrigeration, hot water, cooking, and miscellaneous equipment. Statistical Adjusted Engineering (SAE) models were estimated by building type. The nonlinear SAE models used variables such as building size, vintage, climate region, weekly operating hours, and employee density to adjust the engineering model predicted loads to the observed consumption (based upon utility billing information). End-use consumption by fuel was estimated for each of the 6,751 buildings in the 1992 CBECS. The report displays the summary results for 11 separate building types as well as for the total US commercial building stock. 4 figs., 15 tabs. |
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Note: | Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. "PNNL--11514" " DE97052358" Belzer, D.B.; Wrench, L.E.. Pacific Northwest National Lab., Richland, WA (United States) United States. Dept. of Energy. Energy Information Administration, Washington, DC (United States) DOE Technical report ; PNNL--11514 Electronic resource. |
Call Number: | E 1.99:PNNL--11514 |
System Details: | Available via the World Wide Web. |