Kilowatt Ours Interviews
Arthur Rosenfeld, PhD - Commissioner, California Energy Commission
Arthur Rosenfeld - Part One
Chapter Eight
- Once you set up building standards so that energy efficiency is taken into account you don't need people to be so aware of energy use.
- The low flow shower head is a significant energy saver. If the roof is white and reflective people don't have to think on that.
- If we save just 1% per year by standards that is like a huge oil well under all of our major cities.
Arthur Rosenfeld - Part One
Chapter Eight
- Demonstrates chart of energy use of history before embargo and after. California versus the rest of the country. The results are quite amazing.
- If we had not gotten our energy policy act together we would have had a huge energy bill now that would be economic difficulty.
- In electricity only, California was run on 7,000 KwHrs at the time of the embargo and has managed with our policies to keep that constant. The US is still rising.
Relevant Links:
- THE ART OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Protecting the Environment with Better Technology (Autobiography of Commissioner Rosenfeld)
