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Bailey, O C (2008) Least-cost energy system design for commercial buildings: The relationship between end-use energy efficiency, distributed generation, and utility energy supply, Unpublished PhD Thesis, , Cornell University.
- Type: Thesis
- Keywords: energy consumption; optimization; hospital; utilities; design cost; policy; energy efficiency; systems analysis; commercial building
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- URL: https://www.proquest.com/docview/304630749
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A systems analysis of building energy services and the application of distributed energy resources present an opportunity to provide significant financial and environmental benefits for energy customers and utilities. This dissertation develops an optimization model and a building energy modeling process that considers end-use energy efficiency measures, distributed generation, and utility energy supply simultaneously for providing on-site energy services. A method using prototype buildings to provide standard data input is developed to allow consistency in future modeling and analyses. The result is a tool for policy analysis and general economic screening of energy efficiency measures and distributed generation at commercial buildings. This dissertation links site energy data and eQuest building energy modeling data to an optimization model. The model produces an optimal technology implementation decision and operations plan given a building type, location, energy demands, utility tariffs, and technology cost and performance information. Four sites are modeled in locations across California that represent different building types: a grocery and retail store on a naval base, a hospital, a hotel, and a large office building. The results indicate there is a significant difference in installed technologies, capital and operating costs, energy consumption, and environmental emissions between the options of utility-provided energy services and utility services combined with energy efficiency measures and/or distributed generation, implemented at a commercial site. Furthermore, the financial and environmental results are highly dependent on the parameters at a given site. The contribution of the energy efficiency measures varies depending upon the building's energy consumption and utility prices, and the price and performance of the particular energy efficiency measures modeled. The distributed generation technologies in the model also provide significant contributions to energy and financial results at each site. The simultaneous installation of energy efficiency measures and distributed generation technologies results in synergies in the design, cost, and performance of the on-site energy system.
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