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"What's Going On Out There?" A Baseline Survey for the LCRA's Good Cents Home Program
Abstract
The question, What
constitutes your baseline?"
always challenges Demand-Side
Management program staff. This
study answers that question
for the Lower Colorado River
Authority's Good Cents Home
Program.
The Lower Colorado River
Authority (LCRA) has based its
engineering estimates of
program savings on baseline
construction practices
identified in 1986. LCRA
updated its survey in 1993,
and this study details the
project's findings and
methodology.
LCRA learned that it has
two distinct markets. One,
greater Austin, has a high
level of efficiency, driven by
the City of Austin's energy
code and energy-efficient new
home program, E-Star. The
other is Central Texas, with
lower thermal and equipment
was lower.
The study employed site
surveys of houses under
construction, computer
simulation of building shells and equipment operation, and statistical analysis of data. New savings calculations have put the program on a more conservative and reliable footing as a result of the findings.
Citation
Knutsen, T. (1994). "What's Going On Out There?" A Baseline Survey for the LCRA's Good Cents Home Program. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6626.