energy conservation
Let an agent handle energy conservation by measure, savings, cost, rebound and verification, with sourced estimates.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle energy conservation by measure, savings, cost, rebound and verification, with sourced estimates.
Reducing energy consumption by using less energy or using it more efficiently, through behaviour, technology and services such as energy service companies; subject to rebound effects such as the Jevons paradox.
What it is for: Cutting costs, emissions and resource use.
It can be identify savings measures; estimate and verify savings; finance measures, such as through ESCOs; account for rebound effects.
Distinguishing features
Reducing energy use
Behavioural and technical measures
Savings must be measured and verified
Rebound can offset savings
What it looks like
Insulation, efficient appliances, controls and changed habits.
How it is recognised
Energy audits and savings reports
Efficiency labels
Energy performance contracts
Related models
is a kind of - category
reduces - use
is limited by - Jevons paradox
is confused with - another sense
In practice
Families and kinds
behavioural conservation
efficiency improvements
energy management systems
energy service contracts
Standards and regulation
EU Energy Efficiency Directive
ISO 50001 energy management
IPMVP for measurement and verification
Failure modes and hazards
Overstated savings
Ignoring rebound
Ventilation problems from over-sealing buildings
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Measures What to do.
Measures drive savings.
Options
Measures available.
Measures
Conservation measures.
- Which measures would save most energy here? action
- At what cost? measurement
Behaviour
Habits.
Behaviour
Behavioural measures.
- Which behaviour changes save energy? action
- How durable are they? measurement
Savings How much.
Savings must be verified.
Estimate
Expected savings.
Estimate
Savings estimate.
- How much energy and money will be saved? measurement
- By which method? provenance
Verification
M and V.
Verification
Verification.
- How are savings measured and verified? provenance
- Were they achieved? measurement
Rebound Offsetting effects.
Rebound reduces net savings.
Effect
Size of rebound.
Rebound
Rebound size.
- How large is the rebound effect here? measurement
- What evidence exists? provenance
Policy
Addressing rebound.
Policy
Policy responses.
- How can policy limit rebound? action
- What are the trade-offs? boundary
Finance Paying for it.
Financing enables measures.
Funding
Grants and loans.
Funding
Funding.
- Which grants or loans are available? action
- Who is eligible? boundary
Contracts
ESCOs.
Contracts
Energy service contracts.
- How do energy performance contracts work? definition
- What are the risks? boundary
What the second pass must settle
- Should measures be separate entries?
- How should verified savings be recorded?
- How should the physics law sense be split off?