Residential Solar Heating Demonstration: Final Report of the Management Support Contractor, Volume 1: Management Support Activity

摘要

This report documents the activities, findings, and conclusions of the management support contractor for HUD's Residential Solar Heating Demonstration program. In response to Public Law 93-409, the program sought to provide for the growth of residential use of solar energy, in both new and retrofit construction, to the point where upon the program's completion, there would be a viable, competitive solar industry which could respond to increasing demand for reliable solar products in the marketplace. The report discusses how the program addressed the six main objectives that had to be met in reaching this goal. These objectives were to encourage industry to develop improved and lower cost equipment, to identify the potential institutional barriers to the widespread use of solar heating and cooling in residential applications, and to provide a data base of technical information about hardware characteristics and acceptability. Additional objectives were to provide industry and regulatory bodies with some of the experience necessary to enable them to continue to use solar energy in residential buildings after the program ended, to identify solar equipment available to be incorporated into new dwelling units and retrofitted into existing ones, and to demonstrate available solar hardware. Tables, figures, photographs, a glossary of solar terminology, a selected bibliography, and 16 references are supplied.