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Appendix F: Equivalences and Conversion Factors
Appendix F: Equivalences and Conversion Factors
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. But most people have little feel for these strange units, and so news media, when reporting on energy topics, tend to convert energy and emissions savings to familiar equivalents: namely, avoided cars, homes, or power plants.
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, the typical power plant as defined here is smaller because newly constructed power plants tend to have a capacity of about 500 MW. The typical uses of energy and electricity given in the definitions above are shown in Column A of Tables F.2–F.4.
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stock: millione 1 typical home (electricity + gas/oil) 200 million Btu 200 million -- 1 million typical homes 200 trillion Btu -- 200 trillion 3.2 Power plants -- U.S.
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Similarly one could calculate 5 million equivalent homes or 38 power plants avoided. Using Table F.3 (Electricity)
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stock: 00 millione 1 typical home (electricity + gas/oil) 200 million Btu 1 million 11 Btu = 55 kgf 1 million typical homes 200 trillion Btu 11 million 2.5 Power plantsU.S.
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CONVERTING POWER PLANTS (OR PEAK SHAVING) TO "HOMES" In the analysis above, energy (kWh)
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