This paper describes an end-use analysis of the national energy requirements of U.S. residential window technologies. We estimate that the current U.S. stock of 19 billion square feet of residential windows is responsible for 1.7 quadrillion BTUs (or quads) per year of energy use - 1.3 quads of heating and 0.4 quads of cooling energy - which represents about 2% of total U.S. energy consumption. We show that national energy use due to windows could be reduced by 25% by the year 2010 through accelerated adoption of currently available, advanced window technologies such as low-e and solar control low-e coatings, vinyl and wood frames, and superwindows. We evaluate the economics of the technologies regionally, considering both climatic and energy price variations, and find that the technologies would be cost effective for most consumers.
BT - ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Profiting from Energy Efficiency C1 -Windows and Daylighting Group
C2 - LBNL-39692 CN - LBNL-39692 CY - Pacific Grove, CA DA - 08/1996 LA - eng N2 -This paper describes an end-use analysis of the national energy requirements of U.S. residential window technologies. We estimate that the current U.S. stock of 19 billion square feet of residential windows is responsible for 1.7 quadrillion BTUs (or quads) per year of energy use - 1.3 quads of heating and 0.4 quads of cooling energy - which represents about 2% of total U.S. energy consumption. We show that national energy use due to windows could be reduced by 25% by the year 2010 through accelerated adoption of currently available, advanced window technologies such as low-e and solar control low-e coatings, vinyl and wood frames, and superwindows. We evaluate the economics of the technologies regionally, considering both climatic and energy price variations, and find that the technologies would be cost effective for most consumers.
PP - Pacific Grove, CA PY - 1996 T2 - ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Profiting from Energy Efficiency T3 - ACEEE 1996 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Profiting from Energy Efficiency TI - The National Energy Requirements of Residential Windows in the U.S.: Today and Tomorrow UR - http://aceee.org/files/proceedings/1996/data/papers/SS96_Panel10_Paper07.pdf#page=1 ER -