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Defining a standard metric for electricity savings
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Koomey, Jonathan
Akbari, Hashem
Blumstein, Carl
Brown, Marilyn
Brown, Richard
Calwell, Chris
Carter, Sheryl
Cavanagh, Ralph
Chang, Audrey
Claridge, David
Craig, Paul
Diamond, Rick
Eto, Joseph H.
Fulkerson, William
Gadgil, Ashok
Geller, Howard
Goldemberg, José
Goldman, Chuck
Goldstein, David B.
Greenberg, Steve
Hafemeister, David
Harris, Jeff
Harvey, Hal
Heitz, Eric
Hirst, Eric
Hummel, Holmes
Kammen, Dan
Kelly, Henry
Laitner, Skip
Levine, Mark
Lovins, Amory
Masters, Gil
McMahon, James E.
Meier, Alan
Messenger, Michael
Millhone, John
Mills, Evan
Nadel, Steve
Nordman, Bruce
Price, Lynn
Romm, Joe
Ross, Marc
Rufo, Michael
Sathaye, Jayant
Schipper, Lee
Schneider, Stephen H.
Sweeney, James L.
Verdict, Malcolm
Vorsatz, Diana
Wang, Devra
Weinberg, Carl
Wilk, Richard
Wilson, John
Worrell, Ernst
Akbari, Hashem
Blumstein, Carl
Brown, Marilyn
Brown, Richard
Calwell, Chris
Carter, Sheryl
Cavanagh, Ralph
Chang, Audrey
Claridge, David
Craig, Paul
Diamond, Rick
Eto, Joseph H.
Fulkerson, William
Gadgil, Ashok
Geller, Howard
Goldemberg, José
Goldman, Chuck
Goldstein, David B.
Greenberg, Steve
Hafemeister, David
Harris, Jeff
Harvey, Hal
Heitz, Eric
Hirst, Eric
Hummel, Holmes
Kammen, Dan
Kelly, Henry
Laitner, Skip
Levine, Mark
Lovins, Amory
Masters, Gil
McMahon, James E.
Meier, Alan
Messenger, Michael
Millhone, John
Mills, Evan
Nadel, Steve
Nordman, Bruce
Price, Lynn
Romm, Joe
Ross, Marc
Rufo, Michael
Sathaye, Jayant
Schipper, Lee
Schneider, Stephen H.
Sweeney, James L.
Verdict, Malcolm
Vorsatz, Diana
Wang, Devra
Weinberg, Carl
Wilk, Richard
Wilson, John
Worrell, Ernst
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Arthur H Rosenfeld
Back-of-the-envelope calculations
Climate change solutions
Coal-fired power plants
Electricity savings
Energy efficiency
Energy policy
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Environmental Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 - Climate Action
Back-of-the-envelope calculations
Climate change solutions
Coal-fired power plants
Electricity savings
Energy efficiency
Energy policy
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
General Environmental Science
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 - Climate Action
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26595
Abstract
The growing investment by governments and electric utilities in energy efficiency programs highlights the need for simple tools to help assess and explain the size of the potential resource. One technique that is commonly used in this effort is to characterize electricity savings in terms of avoided power plants, because it is easier for people to visualize a power plant than it is to understand an abstraction such as billions of kilowatt-hours. Unfortunately, there is no standardization around the characteristics of such power plants. In this letter we define parameters for a standard avoided power plant that have physical meaning and intuitive plausibility, for use in back-of-the-envelope calculations. For the prototypical plant this article settles on a 500MW existing coal plant operating at a 70% capacity factor with 7% T&D losses. Displacing such a plant for one year would save 3billion kWh/year at the meter and reduce emissions by 3 million metric tons of CO2 per year. The proposed name for this metric is the Rosenfeld, in keeping with the tradition among scientists of naming units in honor of the person most responsible for the discovery and widespread adoption of the underlying scientific principle in question - DrArthur HRosenfeld.
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2010
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10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014017