An Empirical Strategy for Identifying Residential Energy Conservation Techniques

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 295-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie A. Mathews ◽  
Stephen B. Fawcett ◽  
Russell G. Winn ◽  
R. Mark Mathews
2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Landis ◽  
David Hsu ◽  
Erick Guerra

This article uses a series of fixed-ratio projections and scenarios to explore the potential for local residential energy conservation mandates and compact growth programs to reduce locally based CO2 emissions in eleven representative US metropolitan areas. Averaged across all eleven metros, residential energy conservation mandates could reduce residential CO2 emissions in 2030 by an average of 30 percent over and above 2010 levels. In terms of implementation, residential conservation standards were found to be goal-effective, cost-effective, scale-effective, and in the case of new construction standards, reasonably resistant to local political pushback. Local compact growth programs do not perform as well. If accompanied by aggressive efforts to get drivers out of their cars, compact growth programs could reduce auto-based 2030 CO2 emissions by as much as 25 percent over and above any emissions reductions attributable to higher fuel economy standards. Unaccompanied by modal diversion programs, the stand-alone potential for local compact growth programs to reduce auto-based CO2 emissions falls into a more modest range of 0 to 7 percent depending on the metropolitan area. Based on past performance, local compact growth programs are also likely to have problems in terms of their goal- and scale-efficiency, and their potential to incur political pushback.


2012 ◽  
Vol 575 ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Juan Wang

Inner Mongolia mostly belongs to the rural residence building, no any relevant construction standard and building energy efficiency standards. Most of the farmers in build houses without considering building energy problems. This article through to a rural residential energy conservation calculation and analysis, and obtain the energy-saving index.


1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan M. Macey

For many elderly people, residential energy conservation options are often limited to little or no cost measures such as reducing their winter nighttime thermostat setting. As a result, conflicts can arise between the need to preserve health and the necessity to conserve energy. Under these circumstances, accidental hypothermia is an important and growing concern. This study examines the association between concern for health and the adoption by elderly persons of a lowered winter nighttime thermostat setting. Evidence from two surveys of elderly respondents who maintain separate owner-occupied residences shows that health and thermal comfort concerns are the major reasons for nonadoption of this energy conservation measure. Methods are presented for increasing energy conservation while maintaining a healthful home environment.


2011 ◽  
Vol 368-373 ◽  
pp. 3672-3675
Author(s):  
Xiao Hua Guo ◽  
Lei Zhang

This paper discusses the development trend of urban residences in the future from residential energy conservation, sustainable development, ecologicalization, intelligentalization, and the way to fit for the demands of aging society, in order to offer a reference for seeking the construction pattern of comfortable, healthy and environmental protection residences and the development of such residences, and to make the residential construction in our country better satisfy the consistently increased residential requirements of people.


1985 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Hirst ◽  
Richard Goeltz

2012 ◽  
Vol 599 ◽  
pp. 651-655
Author(s):  
Qiu Fen Hu ◽  
Hua Feng Deng ◽  
Fei Sun ◽  
Jun Wei ◽  
Kun Peng Yu

Based on the study geography, climate and other natural resources and customs,such as fully promote the use of biogas energy, develop and utilize of solar energy, sewage and waste utilization and processing Measures .we put forward some specific measures to improve rural residential, we discuss rural green residence pattern, to achieve environmental protection and energy saving construction of integration effect, after the rural residential areas to provide reference for the construction of.


1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.James Press ◽  
Judith M Tanur

2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 537-540
Author(s):  
Hui Xie ◽  
Li Feng Wang ◽  
Wei Liang

Beijing is a major municipality/province of energy consumption, but poor in energy resources. The inherent and complete dependence on importing energy makes energy security extremely difficult, which draws more attention to the energy conservation in Beijing. With the improvement of people's living standard, the proportion of the residential energy consumption continuously increased. Residential energy saving became the key field of energy conservation and environmental protection. A great many factors of which the relations are complex affect the energy conservation. By introducing System Dynamics analysis, which has a unique advantage of analyzing the multiple and complex feedback system, this paper aims to analyze energy consumption of Beijings residential sector and finally comes to some suggestions towards governments policies.


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