Automated energy management systems for small buildings. Volume II: market assessment reports, Phase I and II. Final report

• Main Author: None
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION; CONSUMPTION; AND UTILIZATION; 29 ENERGY PLANNING; POLICY AND ECONOMY; APARTMENT BUILDINGS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMATION; MARKETING RESEARCH; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SCHOOL BUILDINGS; CALIFORNIA; DATA COMPILATION; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; GEORGIA; MASSACHUSETTS; MINNESOTA; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BUILDINGS; DATA; GREAT LAKES REGION; INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH ATLANTIC REGION; NUMERICAL DATA; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; SOUTHEAST REGION; USA; WESTERN REGION; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6233803; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6233803; https://doi.org/10.2172/6233803

Marketec, Inc., as part of a Honeywell research project sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE), studied the major marketing influences affecting purchasing decisions for a new product concept - an Automated Energy Management System (AEMS). The first part of this study, designated Phase One, deals with four broad assessments of market need for an AEMS within the market segment generally defined as small buildings (75,000 square feet or less). Thus, determinations were made, using carefully selected focus groups, of the following issues: (1) market perception of the market segment in particular; (2) attitudinal statements concerning the solution of these problems; (3) current and projected energy-saving practices by the respondents from the market segment; and (4) an estimate of market potential of an AEMS from an analysis of the focus groups. The second phase of this investigation deals with larger national samplings from the same market segments and uses a questionnaire technique. Three small building sectors were chosen to represent the total small-building market: (1) apartments, (2) schools, and (3) offices. In the aggregate, these three sectors represent 50% or more of the energy consumed, square footage, and number of buildings of that total market.