User'S Guide for Regional Reference Energy Systems.

摘要

The report is a user's guide to an analytical approach to energy planning originally developed for national analysis,but now adaptable to regional and state planning. A number of reports are available that summarize the development and use of the regional energy planning methodology. This report describes the structure of the model and how it is used (in Chapter II) and indicates where data are available and how they can be assembled into the analytical framework (Chapter III). In Chapter III,the various sections of the model--energy demands,electricity demand,fossil fuel supply--are described and the means to construct them are layed out in the user assembly forms of Appendix A. A submodel for estimating residential energy consumption and commercial heating and air conditioning load calculation are data supplied in Appendices B and C. The version of the methodology presented here does not depend on the use of computers. A computerized version of the methodology is available and is convenient both from the point of view of data storage and manipulation and from the point of view of policy analysis.