Using less energy today can save money and improve the quality of the environment for future generations. RAND has informed public awareness and policy with research on such topics as energy use in commercial buildings, household energy conservation, the conflict between energy conservation and productivity in schools and offices, and the potential to reduce the energy requirements of U.S. commercial airlines.
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Reviews behavioral and social sciences research on household energy conservation. The Note describes the research, quantifies the savings in energy that were achieved, and indicates how they were achieved.
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The federal Residential Conservation Service program is currently being reviewed for possible revision or even discontinuation.
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Describes the characteristics, achievements, and problems of twelve residential energy conservation programs in seven localities: Portland (Oregon), San Francisco, Seattle, Chattanooga, Providence, Minneapolis-St. Paul, and Boston. The information ...
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The Department of Energy was interested in learning more about which kinds of energy conservation services are of greater use to homeowners and in assessing the potential impact of integrated retrofit delivery systems in accelerating household retrof...
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Examines the potential for large corporations providing integrated retrofit services to assist homeowners in making their homes energy efficient. Some people have argued that the residential retrofit market presents an attractive business opportunity...
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In a recent article, J. Daniel Khazzoom has argued that a mandated appliance energy efficiency standard may raise energy consumption if increased intensity of utilization offsets the appliance's increased efficiency. However, since the level of servi...
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Dependence of the United States on imported oil poses two interrelated but distinct problems: chronic economic losses to the U.S. economy, and vulnerability to supply disruptions. The synthetic fuels program, conservation measures, and phased decon...
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Soviet energy balances
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Describes the problems in combining databases and documents the data involved in empirical testing of electricity demand model in R-1899.
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Comments on the possibility of decoupling decisions on the licensing of nuclear power plants from decisions on nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities. The author suggests that amended legislation should make it feasible to license new nuclear power pla...
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An abridgment of results of a study on energy policy issues facing California, reported in full in Energy Alternatives for California: Paths to the Future, R-1793.
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A discussion of feasibility of using marginal cost pricing for electricity rates.
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Energy Conservation in Nonresidential Buildings.
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Testimony presented at hearings on the California Nuclear Safeguards Initiative discussing possible effects of the passage of the initiative. Using projections of electricity use developed at RAND, the author suggests that generating capacity could b...
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A review of research into energy problems and policy conducted at RAND since 1970. This research served as the basis for hearings by the California State Assembly in 1973, and resulted in the introduction of a number of energy bills in the State Sena...
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Describes an automobile design model that assesses the effects of design changes on fuel economy, lifetime energy required, sticker price, and annual cost of ownership of automobiles having specified acceleration capabilities, passenger and trunk ...
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Estimates consumption of all forms of energy in the residential sector, broken down by the major end uses, for each of the nine census regions of the United States for the base year 1970.
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Conserving Electricity by Ordinance : A Statistical Analysis
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Results of a major RAND study to identify and analyze energy policy issues facing California, with emphasis on developing a coordinated state policy response.
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An assessment of California's current energy situation in terms of sources of supply, uses, and conservation. Due to declining in-state production and reduced deliveries from other sources, California's natural gas supplies will be about 8 percent l...
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