Prepared for: Southern California Edison, Customer Assistance Programs
Report Dated: December 19, 1994
By: John Proctor, P.E.
In Edison's 1991 GRC Decision, the CPUC would not authorize a program utilizing blower door technology to diagnose air leakage and guide repair of excessive air leakage in all-electric homes occupied by LIRA customers. This decision was based on the fact that no evidence was provided during the rate hearings that showed these techniques were effective in weatherizing LIRA customer homes in Southern California.
Edison consequently retained the services of Proctor Engineering Group (PEG) to perform research and analysis of the cost effectiveness of BGW. As a result, Edison could expect to make informed program decisions about BGW based on previously completed research and pilot project test results in their service territory.
Proctor Engineering Group was enlisted to perform several tasks in the course of examining the cost effectiveness of BGW for Edison during the study. These tasks included:
The primary purpose of the comprehensive literature search was to help define and clarify the primary research questions and to summarize the results of previous Blower Door Guided Weatherization studies.
The Southern California Blower Door Breakpoint Study was conducted to determine the LIRA customer sample selection that the field study would target. Customers that represented a significant portion of the all-electric LIRA customer housing stock in Edison's territory were selected through this study for targeting.
The final phase of the project was the Blower Door Guided Weatherization Field Test. The field test was designed to include pre-/post- BGW retrofit measurement and evaluation of heating and cooling usage through long term monitoring. This report details the results of the field test.
Also see Program Design
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