Skip to page content

Energy Conservation

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.

Report
Energy Alternatives for California: Paths to the Future
Results of a major RAND study to identify and analyze energy policy issues facing California, with emphasis on developing a coordinated state policy response.
Jan 1, 1975
Report
Conserving Electricity by Ordinance : A Statistical Analysis
Conserving Electricity by Ordinance : A Statistical Analysis
Jan 1, 1975
Report
A Generalized Model for Comparing Automobile Design Approaches to Improved Fuel Economy
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 ...
Jan 1, 1975
Report
California's Electricity Quandary.
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...
Jan 1, 1975
Report
Possible Effects of Nuclear Initiative on Supply and Use of Electricity in California.
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...
Jan 1, 1975
Report
Can Land Use Management Reduce Energy Consumption for Transportation?
The author explores the notion that if land use management can be applied to the problem of energy conservation, it would be by changes in the location of homes, jobs, recreational amenities, etc., so as to minimize the distances people would have to travel.
May 1, 1974
Report
Electricity conservation measures in the commercial sector : the Los Angeles experience
Electricity conservation measures in the commercial sector : the Los Angeles experience
Jan 1, 1974
Report
How To Save Gasoline: Public Policy Alternatives for the Automobile
Sought to devise analytical tools to evaluate the effects on private transportation of national energy conservation measures, to apply these tools in a systematic analysis to compare the effectiveness of several alternative policy instrument...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Coping with the Fuel Shortage: A Guide for Los Angeles Residents.
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...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Energy Alternatives for California: The Current Crisis IV: Regulatory Aspects of Energy Policy.
Discussion of some of the critical elements of governmental regulatory policy that are likely to affect the availability and distribution of energy--natural gas, petroleum products, and electric power--in California during the present period of scarc...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Intergovernmental Relations in Energy Policy, Or How To Get Along with the In-laws.
A discussion of the issue of the participation of state and local governments in the resolution of energy problems. The author's proposition is that energy issues involving significant concurrent jurisdiction of two or more governmental entities are...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Effects of Energy Shortages on the Way We Live.
Discusses the use of energy in personal transportation and residential buildings, in terms of both primary energy (fossil fuels consumed) and kilowatt-hours or Btu of direct consumption. Since energy prices may rise far beyond historical levels, con...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Some Comments on Conservation in the Use of Energy.
A discussion of (1) advantages and problems in substituting natural gas for electricity, especially for residential space heating and cooling and water heaters; (2) possibilities and problems of producing and using synthetic gas; and (3) ways of curt...
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Residential Water Heating: Fuel Conservation, Economics, and Public Policy
Investigates the changes that can be made in water heating technology to reduce the energy required to heat a given amount of water to some acceptable temperature, i.e., to reduce heat losses from the system.
Jan 1, 1974
Report
Strategy Alternatives for Oxidant Control in the Los Angeles Region
This project sought to evaluate strategies for controlling oxidant (smog) in Los Angeles and to investigate their sensitivity to assumptions.
Jan 1, 1973
Report
Residential Energy Use: An Econometric Analysis
Fifty-state data for 1960 and 1970 are used to estimate equations for predicting (a) household stocks of energy using devices including space heating units, ranges, air conditioners, clothes washers and dryers, ...
Jan 1, 1973
Report
Energy Alternatives for California: The Current Crisis. III. Allocation of Scarce Supplies.
Discussion of two important aspects of allocation policy. The first is the overall distribution of energy supplies among different energy products and among four major sectors of the economy: residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation....
Jan 1, 1973
Report
Energy Alternatives for California: The Current Crisis, II. Conservation of Energy
An assessment of the extent to which rapid adoption of conservation measures might help relieve the energy crisis, including how far each conservation measure might go toward reducing expected shortages and the potential aggregate effect on the...
Jan 1, 1973
Report
Energy Demand in the Future--Reducing the Growth Rate.
Describes energy utilization in the United States and proposes measures for conserving energy without economic dislocation. Demand for electricity has been growing 8 to 8-1/2 percent each year. Reducing demand growth to 3 percent would buy time to ...
Jan 1, 1973
Report
Measures for Slowing Growth in Electricity Consumption
Examines the three greatest sources of growth — heating, cooling, and lighting — in terms of four major growth-slowing measures: improved building insulation; substitution of gas for electricity in selected end uses; use of solar energy...
Jan 1, 1973

Previous
1
2
3
4
5
6
Next

RAND Topic:
Energy Conservation

Topic Synonyms:
Energy Efficiency

Research conducted by