Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
The effect of burning wood on saving electricity
Abstract By applying PRISM to a conservation data base from a Northwestern state in the U.S., the impact of wood usage on scorekeeping estimates of saved energy as well as on conservation behavior is explored. The model performance for houses reporting high wood usage is, on average, almost as high as it is for non-wood-burning houses. The more erratic electricity consumption and the somewhat less well determined model parameter estimates for the wooduser samples show up primarily as an increase in outliers. The reliability of Normalized Annual Consumption (NAC) as a conservation index is thus not strongly affected by wood usage. An interesting result is that the energy savings are much higher for woodusers than for non-woodusers. To explain this, the effect of various indicators of wood use on energy savings is examined. The results suggest that respondent-estimated wood usage may be better understood as an indicator of a propensity to conserve rather than as an accurate reflection of the magnitude of a switch to a replacement fuel for electricity. With good scorekeeping tools, this suggestive hypothesis can be tested on other data sets.
The effect of burning wood on saving electricity
Abstract By applying PRISM to a conservation data base from a Northwestern state in the U.S., the impact of wood usage on scorekeeping estimates of saved energy as well as on conservation behavior is explored. The model performance for houses reporting high wood usage is, on average, almost as high as it is for non-wood-burning houses. The more erratic electricity consumption and the somewhat less well determined model parameter estimates for the wooduser samples show up primarily as an increase in outliers. The reliability of Normalized Annual Consumption (NAC) as a conservation index is thus not strongly affected by wood usage. An interesting result is that the energy savings are much higher for woodusers than for non-woodusers. To explain this, the effect of various indicators of wood use on energy savings is examined. The results suggest that respondent-estimated wood usage may be better understood as an indicator of a propensity to conserve rather than as an accurate reflection of the magnitude of a switch to a replacement fuel for electricity. With good scorekeeping tools, this suggestive hypothesis can be tested on other data sets.
The effect of burning wood on saving electricity
Fels, Margaret F. (Autor:in) / Stram, Daniel O. (Autor:in)
Energy and Buildings ; 9 ; 119-126
01.01.1986
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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