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Industry Questions on Applying a LCFS to Residential Heating & Hot Water Systems

Explore the complexities of applying a Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) to home heating. Addressing fuel switching, emissions data, efficiency, costs, and impacts on lifestyle and R&D efforts.

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Industry Questions on Applying a LCFS to Residential Heating & Hot Water Systems

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  1. Industry Questions on Applying a LCFS to Residential Heating & Hot Water Systems • How does a LCFS interact with current and t future Federal, regional and state building energy efficiency and environmental ? • If fuel switching is employed based on CO2e alone how do you account for: • Keeping the life-cycle emissions data current • Appliance efficiency differences • Impacts of other air pollutants on the region • Additional infrastructure costs • Homeowner conversion costs • Projections of fuel supply, demand and cost • Other life cycle emissions impacts • Required homeowner lifestyle changes • Impact on current R&D efforts 1

  2. Liquid Fuels Industry Plans • There is no silver bullet • Multiple energy sustainable pathways are required • The industry has decided to move to ultralow sulfur fuel as soon as practicable either in 2010 or 2011 at the latest. • The industry is committed to accelerate the blending with sustainable biofuels as soon as infrastructure, end-use storage and combustion technology can accommodate it. • The industry is accelerating the use of solar thermal integrated liquid fueled hydronic systems to increase fuel use reduction while maintaining the reliability and convenience of stored liquid fuels • In the future liquid fuels can redefine ZEBs to include ZCBs (zero carbon footprint buildings) 2

  3. Liquid Fuels Industry Plans Near-Term Carbon Footprint Reduction Pathway 3

  4. Liquid Fuels Industry Plans On the pathway toward ZEBs and ZCBs ZEB – zero fossil energy buildings ZCB – zero carbon footprint buildings 4

  5. Issues to consider – how • to encourage rapid adoption of ULS fuels • to encourage accelerated blending of biofuels up to 5% near-term • to encourage research in expanding bio-blending beyond the 5% currently recognized by ASTM • to encourage homeowners to change out old furnaces, boilers and control systems • to encourage homeowners to increase the energy efficiency of their homes • to increase research on cellulosic material (like forest residue) conversion to liquid fuels e.g. ethyl or butyl – levulinate 5

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