 Estimation of energy intensity by end-use for commercial buildingsIsaac Turiel, Paul Craig, Mark Levine, Jim McMahon, George McCollister, Beverly Hesterberg and Michael Robinson Energy, 1987, vol. 12, issue 6, 435-446 Abstract: We describe the results of a study to estimate the energy intensities of major end-uses in commercial buildings in the PG&E service area. These energy intensities are central to commercial sector electricity and natural gas consumption forecasting models that utilize an end-use approach. The use of more accurate energy intensities will result in improved estimates of new power generation needs. To our knowledge, this is one of only three studies using the conditional demand approach for the commercial sector. This technique is less costly than end-use metering a large number of commercial buildings to arrive at energy intensity estimates. We obtained these energy intensity estimates for offices, food stores, restaurants, retail buildings, hotels and motels, hospitals, schools, warehouses, and miscellaneous buildings. We applied the conditional demand technique to monthly energy use, building characteristics, and weather data to produce annual estimates of natural gas and electricity use per square foot of floor space. The consumption estimates are for the following seven end-uses: space heating, cooling, lighting, water heating, cooking, refrigeration, and miscellaneous use. Date: 1987 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:12:y:1987:i:6:p:435-446 DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(87)90003-X Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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