Title | Saving Lives through Energy Efficiency: Valuing the Health- and Safety-Related Benefits of Weatherization in Low-Income Homes |
Publication Type | Web Article |
Year of Publication | 2017 |
Authors | Chan, C, Clendenning, G, Hawkins, B, Rose, E, Tonn, B |
Publisher | 2017 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference |
City | Baltimore, MD |
Language | English |
Keywords | Energy efficiency |
Abstract | “Non-energy benefits” (NEBs) – such as improved comfort, health, safety, and productivity – are an important, yet often difficult to measure, component of determining and recognizing the full, “real” value of the country’s energy efficiency (EE) programs. A comprehensive, integrative study was conducted to reexamine and quantify the health and safety-related NEBs of the single-family lowincome (LI) weatherization program in Massachusetts (MA), which include reduced asthma, thermal stress, home fire, and carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning; reduced losses in work income; reduced use of short-term predatory loans; and increased home productivity. This study employed the methodology developed in a 2015 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) study of its Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). |
URL | http://www.nmrgroupinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Gregs-paper.pdf |