Energy Management
  • Introduction
  • Context and Motivation
  • Thermal Concepts
    • Temperature
    • Convection
      • Heat Capacity
      • Latent Heat
      • Demonstrations
    • Radiation
    • Conduction
    • Thermodynamics
  • Financial and Economic Considerations
    • Financial Considerations
    • Time Value of Money
    • Energy Cost Metrics
  • Modeling
    • Energy Modeling Definitions
    • Heated Enclosure
    • Computation
    • Computation Fundamentals
    • Circuit Models
  • Building Applications
    • Heating and Cooling Degree Days
    • Convection in Buildings
    • Heat Pumps
    • Practical Elements
    • Passive Design Elements
    • Thermal Mass
  • Solar Energy
    • Solar Angles
    • Solar Energy Estimations
  • Combustion
  • Physics Fundamentals and Miscellaneous
    • Efficiency Elements
    • Raw Lecture Notes
    • Examples
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Financial and Economic Considerations

Finances dictate most energy decisions and we choose the technology that is the least cost according to some criteria. In this chapter we introduce a few criteria that are commonly used.

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