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Texas' Senate Bill 5 Legislation for Reducing Pollution in Non-Attainment and Affected Areas: Procedures for Measuring Electricity Savings from the Adoption of the International Energy Conservation Code (IRC/IECC 2001) in New Residences
Abstract
Four areas in Texas have been designated by the
EPA as non-attainment areas because ozone levels
exceed the NAAQS maximum allowable limits,
Beaumont-Port Arthur, El Paso, Dallas-Ft. Worth,
and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria. These areas face
severe sanctions if attainment is not reached by 2007.
Four additional areas in the state are also approaching
national ozone limits (i.e., affected areas), including:
Austin, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and the
Longview-Tyler-Marshall area.
In 2001, the Texas State Legislature formulated
and passed Senate Bill 5 to further reduce ozone
levels by encouraging the reduction of emissions of
NOx by sources that are currently not regulated by the
TNRCC, including area sources (e.g., residential
emissions), on-road mobile sources (e.g., all types of
motor vehicles), and non-road mobile sources (e.g.,
aircraft, locomotives, etc.).
An important part of this legislation is the
evaluation of the State's energy efficiency programs,
which includes reductions in energy use and demand
that are associated with specific energy conservation
measures. This paper outlines the procedures that are
being developed to report the electricity savings
associated with the adoption of the International
Energy Conservation Code (IECC 2001) in
residential construction in non-attainment and
affected counties. These electricity savings will then
be converted to NOx reductions using the appropriate
Citation
Haberl, J. S.; Culp, C.; Yazdani, B.; Fitzpatrick, T.; Turner, W. D. (2002). Texas' Senate Bill 5 Legislation for Reducing Pollution in Non-Attainment and Affected Areas: Procedures for Measuring Electricity Savings from the Adoption of the International Energy Conservation Code (IRC/IECC 2001) in New Residences. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /4578.