Description
We have constructed a simple but comprehensive village energy use model that includes space heating and transportation fuel use as well as electricity. Because people in isolated remote northern communities pay about 2/3 of their overall energy bills for heat and transportation (WH Pacific et al. 2012), knowledge of overall energy demand by major end use is important when considering energy systems that can make the best use of efficiency and renewables as resources to offset costly fossil fuels. Previous work (Devine & Baring-Gould 2004) provides community planners and policy makers with a good tool for estimating community electricity demand. This paper builds on that work with an integrated model that can be used to estimate overall village energy usage based on a relatively small number of socioeconomic characteristics, such as population; number of residential, commercial and public facilities; housing and building stock characteristics; and transportation patterns and equipment types. The Alaska Village Energy Model (AVEM) model uses the best available primary data from recent collection efforts, and can easily incorporate new data that may become available."
Publication Date
4-17-2013
Keywords
energy use model, space heating, transportation fuel use, electricity, energy demand, energy bills, energy systems, efficiency, renewables
Recommended Citation
Colt, Steve, "The Alaska Village Energy Model" (2013). Reports. 243.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_iser_reports/243
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11994