Ivane Pirveli 2/7/2014

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Dear LEAP community,

Bottom-up approach for LEAP modeling requires more detailed end-use data. Is there any Energy end-use survey template (questionnaires) on household or other levels (i.e. commercial)that addresses LEAP data requirements.

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Ivane

Taylor Binnington 2/7/2014
 

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Hi Ivane,

Unfortunately, we don't have any past surveys available that have been used to gather household energy consumption data.

In the meantime, however, I'd invite you to have a look through our main LEAP data requirements document, which I've uploaded here:

http://www.energycommunity.org/uploads/LEAP_Data_Requirements.doc

This document is fairly comprehensive, but for your purposes you'll want to focus more carefully on the residential sector. In most cases, you'll want to focus on cooking, lighting and 'other' uses (i.e. televisions, radios...), as well as refrigeration, space heating and cool, water heating, etc. Your survey could include questions to determine the total number of households that have refrigerators, the fraction of houses using each type of available cooking technology (for example, electric stoves or three-stone wood stoves), as well as the different fuels consumed for lighting. Ideally, you could break your responses into both rural and urban households.

To push your data gathering further, you might try to understand the fractions of households using specific types of technologies - it will be useful for you to know how many households use refrigerators, but it will be even more useful to be able to classify each refrigerator as 'efficient' or 'standard', just as an example.

Finally, you'll want to understand the amount of fuel consumed by each device. This may mean asking survey participants to estimate the amount of wood consumed for cooking purposes, or perhaps the number of hours that a television is switched on.

I hope this gives you an idea of the type of information that might be required, but my best piece of advice is to familiarize yourself with LEAP, and with energy modeling in general, before spending too many resources collecting the wrong type of data in your surveys. Working through some of LEAP's basic training exercises will be very useful for you, and give you an idea of the type of data you can hope to ask of your survey participants.

Good luck,

Taylor