- Author
- National Bureau of Standards
- Title
- Proposed Technical Data Requirements for the National Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Energy Research and Development Administration, Washington, DC Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 77-1247, May 1977,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- solar energy; data acquisition; solar heating systems; solar cooling systems; legislation; government policies; national government; planning; technology innovation; buildings; design criteria; design standards; performance | solar energy
- Identifiers
- solar heating and cooling demonstration act of 1974; national program for the solar heating and cooling of buildings; residential sector; commercial sector
- Abstract
- The Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Act of 1974 calls for the development of interim performance criteria for solar heating and cooling systems and the buildings in which they will be used. Section 8 of the law provides for the use of data from the demonstration program to develop definitive performance crtieria, as well as testing procedures whereby manufacturers can certify that their products conform to definitive performance criteria. Responsibility for the development of these definitive performance criteria has been assigned by the Energy Research and Development Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). The plan presented in this document was prepared in order to define the technical non-instrumentation (TNI) data required by NBS in order to effectively monitor the residential and commercial demonstration programs, mandated by PL 93-409, for feedback.