Domestic Gas Consumption Basic Study 1987

摘要

Since 1978, N.V. Nederlands e Gasunie and VEGIN have been conducting joint research into the domestic market - the ''Domestic Gas Consumption Basic Study''. The object of this research is to obtain an insight into the domestic gas market and, in particular, into those factors which influence gas consumption. The study has been carried out on an annual basis since 1980. The present year is therefore the eighth consecutive year of the study. These studies have yielded a great deal of information on the domestic market. The ongoing nature of the research is revealing all kinds of trends in this market. The 1987 study went into the most important characteristics of housing description, cooking appliances and water heating appliances. An in-depth study was also made of the heating market. In addition to cataloguing the market penetration of the various types of heating appliance, such aspects as supplementary heating, behavior patterns with regards to use of heating appliances and a variety of data relating to central heating boilers (replacement of individual boilers, replacement of communal boilers by individual boilers in blocks of flats, types of boiler etc.). 13 tabs., 3 figs. (ERA citation 13:053094)