Defining a standard metric for electricity savings

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Koomey, Jonathan ^a   Akbari, Hashem ^a   Blumstein, Carl ^a   Brown, Marilyn ^a   Brown, Richard ^a   Calwell, Chris ^a   Carter, Sheryl ^a   Cavanagh, Ralph ^a   Chang, Audrey ^a   Claridge, David ^a   Craig, Paul ^a   Diamond, Rick ^a   Eto, Joseph H ^a   Fulkerson, William ^a   Gadgil, Ashok ^a   Geller, Howard ^a   Goldemberg, José ^a   Goldman, Chuck ^a   Goldstein, David B ^a   Greenberg, Steve ^a   Hafemeister, David ^a   Harris, Jeff ^a   Harvey, Hal ^a   Heitz, Eric ^a   Hirst, Eric ^a   Hummel, Holmes ^a   Kammen, Dan ^a   Kelly, Henry ^a   Laitner, Skip ^a   Levine, Mark ^a   Lovins, Amory ^a   Masters, Gil ^a   McMahon, James E ^a   Meier, Alan ^a   Messenger, Michael ^a   Millhone, John ^a   Mills, Evan ^a   Nadel, Steve ^a   Nordman, Bruce ^a   Price, Lynn ^a   Romm, Joe ^a   Ross, Marc ^a   Rufo, Michael ^a   Sathaye, Jayant ^a   Schipper, Lee ^a   Schneider, Stephen H ^a   Sweeney, James L ^a   Verdict, Malcolm ^a   Vorsatz, Diana ^a   Wang, Devra ^a   Weinberg, Carl ^a   Wilk, Richard ^a   Wilson, John ^a   Worrell, Ernst ^a   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthur H Rosenfeld; Back of the envelope calculations; Climate change solutions; Coal fired power plants; Electricity savings; Energy efficiency; Energy policy

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

ARTHUR H ROSENFELD; BACK-OF-THE-ENVELOPE CALCULATIONS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY SAVING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; POTENTIAL RESOURCES; SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES;

ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77950637445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/014017     Document Type: Article

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