Evaluating Incentives for Solar Heating.
Evaluating Incentives for Solar Heating.
(3144 K)
Ruegg, R. T.
NBSIR 76-1127; 61 p. September 1976.
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Keywords:
solar heating; cost analysis; cost effectiveness;
incentives; life-cycle cost analysis; solar energy
Abstract:
This report provides a life-cycle cost model and a
computer program for measuring the dollar impacts of
alternative incentives on the private costs of a solar
heating system. In addition, it applied the evaluation
model in six case examples, for seven selected
incentives. The purpose of the report is to assist
state and Federal legislators in formulating effective
policies for encouraging the widespread use of solar
energy systems in buildings. It does this by promoting
quantitative assessment of the kinds of incentive
programs now being considered for adoption by many state
legislatures and by the U.S. Congress. The results of
the case examples indicate that the effectiveness of a
given incentive program will differ by region, by type
of building and by fuel prices; that in some states the
incentive programs now being enacted will not be worth
their administrative costs; and that an indepth
assessment of policy implications should be made of the
differential impact of incentive programs on residential
versus commercial use of solar energy.
