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This article was created by Byron Stafford of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and was presented at the ACI New Jersey Home Performance Conference for Whole House Energy Solutions in September of 2008. It focuses on solar domestic hot water system options and capabilities for residential housing in New Jersey, USA.

This document was created by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which is operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. It provides information on the EnergyPlus analysis software program.

The EnergyPlus software is intended to provide energy simulations of whole buildings, and determine their level of energy efficiency. Earlier versions of the program were based on the Heat Balance Model, and measured standard indicators of energy usage such as building envelopes and HVAC systems.

The “Technical Report” is an integral part of any application for REAP grant and/or guaranteed loan assistance.

This report was released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2003. It provides an overview of the Parabolic Trough model with details regarding performance, cost and economic assessment of design and technology variations.

They compare modeled parabolic trough numbers with actual outputs through cost models and performance models, as well as going over predictions and assumptions based off of their model.

This study from 2007 provided by the NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) offers a technical analysis of the solar water heating (SWH) potential in reducing fossil fuel consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. residential and commercial buildings.

This study published by the NREL (US National Renewable Energy Laboratory) in 2004 estimates the economic impact, in terms of employment, personal income, and gross state product (GSP) of developing some portion of Nevada’s solar energy generation sources.
In Nevada, although a very high potential for renewable electricity has been registered, almost 90 percent of the electricity generated still comes from coal (53 percent) or natural gas (36 percent).

This document was produced by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (in 2003) and focuses on solar thermal parabolic troughs.

It breaks down how parabolic troughs work, and how to reduce the cost going forward and how it could compete with the costs of fossil-power alternatives.

This document predicts that parabolic trough technology can compete directly with conventional power technologies within 5 to 10 years from when this was written.

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The objective of the study, published by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREl) in 2006, was to characterize commercial and developing CSP technologies and estimate the direct and indirect economic impacts of CSP deployment. The economic impact of CSP deployment was calculated by considering the impact to Gross State Output, earnings, employment, and to state tax receipts. The study was divided into five tasks:
• Task 1: Technology Assessment
• Task 2: Solar Resource Assessment
• Task 3: Cost of Energy and Economic Impact Evaluation