Electrical Energy Conservation and Peak Demand Reduction Potential for Buildings in Texas: Preliminary Results

摘要

This paper presents preliminary results of astudy of electrical energy conservation and peakdemand reduction potential for the building sectorin Texas. Starting from 1980 building stocks andenergy use characteristics, technical conservationpotentials were calculated relative to frozen energyefficiency stock growth over the 1980-2000 period.The application of conservation supply methodologyto Texas utilities is outlined, and then the energyuse and peak demand savings, and their associatedcosts, are calculated using a prototypical buildingtechnique. Representative results are presented,for residential and commercial building types, asconservation supply curves for several end usecategories; complete results of the study arepresented in Ref. 1.