Rogge http://groklab.org/rogge Just another Groklab.org weblog Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:59:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en http://groklab.org/rogge/2007/12/14/5/ http://groklab.org/rogge/2007/12/14/5/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:43:57 +0000 rogge http://groklab.org/rogge/2007/12/14/5/ Allright Geb, you asked for it. Here’s the rough outline (whipped up in between DFM vacuum hell and lunchtime).

 

 

Introduction

  • Problem statement (need for energy efficiency incentives)
  • Approaches that encourage efficiency retrofits
  • Education model vs performance contracting models
  • Description of research question/s
  • Methodology overview
  • Results synopsis
  • Limitations/ areas of further inquiry

Background

  • Escos
    • Concept
    • History
    • Current model (how they work)
    • Statisical overview
  • IAC program
    • Concept
    • History
    • Stats overview
  • Energy efficiency measures
    • Lighting
    • Comfort conditioning
    • Motor controls
    • Other
  • Sectors of application
    • Residential
    • Industrial
    • Institutional

Methods

  • Data sets
    • Description of NAESCO survey and data
      • Limitations
    • Description of IAC data
      • Limitations

Results

  • Descriptive statistics
  • Hypothesis testing
    • Performance differences by sector
    • Performance differences by retrofit type
    • Performance differences by prediction/outcome matching

  • Overall measures of success
    • Energy saved/area
    • E saved/project
    • E saved per $ spent on retrofit
    • Savings broken down by sector, retrofit type,

 

Conclusions

  • Strengths and weaknesses of different approaches
  • Evaluation of energy savings potential
  • Areas for improvement
  • Areas for cross-pollination?
  • Limitations of researchAreas of further inquiry
  • Recommendations

I now officially hate wordpress - it took me longer to reformat the bulleting after the cut ‘n paste from Word than it did to write the outline.

Major problem just now encountered - the ESCO database (which was used in multiple studies by the folk at Lawrence Livermore) turns out to be private!   I just got a call back from Terry Singer, director of the National Association of Energy Service Companies,   who told me that as part of their agreement with the companies surveyed, only aggregate data could be released.   No access for me….

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