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-Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 17,1975
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Gas or electricity: an old energy battle
By JERRY R. WILSON
TULSA, Okla. (UPI) — Consulting engineer Jack
Tumilty, a friendly man with a quick smile and a wry
sense of humor, has a job which requires all the skills of
Henry Kissinger at his diplomatic best.
Tumilty heads a committee drafting a standards code
on energy conservation in new building design which is
expected to become law in most, if not all, of the 50 states.
He is caught in one of the energy industry’s oldest
battles -an efficiency fight between gas and electric
utilities.
The federal government asked states to legislate energy
conservation in building codes and the National
Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards
turned to the National Bureau of Standards. The NBS
drafted a preliminary report, then suggested it be given to
the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air
conditioning Engineers for review, refinement and endor
sement.
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ASHRAE dropped the project into the lap of Tumilty, 48,
a University of Oklahoma graduate who is a past
president of ASHRAE’s Tulsa chapter with a record of
four years service on similar industry committees.
Tumilty’s committee hopes to have its final draft
approved by ASHRAE in June, with the ASHRAE
standard incorporated thereafter in state legislation to
satisfy the federal authorities. Debate which has delayed
action on the draft concerns “point of origin” versus
“point of use” in determining the relative conservation
merits of gas and electricity.
It’s a battle Tumilty would just as soon stay away from
but can’t.
“The gas industry wants this document to recognize the
need to go beyond the building itself in considering the
energy used by the building,” he says. “We have been
trying to consider the point of generation—the power
plant.”
A committee appointed by Dave Rickilton, ASHRAE
president, including representatives of the American Gas
Association, National Oil Fuel Institute, Edison Electric
Institute, the coal industry, National Bureau of Standards
and two consulting engineers, failed to reach conclusions
despite several long and often heated meetings.
Basically, the gas industry claims electricity is wasteful
because it loses too much energy in converting natural
gas or other fuels into power before it ever gets to a
building. The electric industry counters that electricity is
nearly 100 per cent efficient at the building site, while gas
is, at best, 80 per cent efficient.
“The function of the standards should be the
conservation of energy used in the building,” says J.E.
Daley, vice president for public affairs, Public Service Co.
of Oklahoma. “...Architects and engineers should not be
forced to attempt evaluation of nebulous factors beyond
the confines of the building they’re designing and
building.”
“You must go back to the source of the energy—the
point where the fuel is put into the electric generating
plant or where natural gas enters the transmission
system—to realistically measure energy efficiencies,”
says Dale E. Frieden, marketing vice president of
Oklahoma Natural Gas Co.
The gas industry is worried ASHRAE will publish its
standard without taking a position.
“This would, in all probability, legislate the selection of
electric equipment and appliances in new buildings,”
Frieden says. “This would be additional waste of primary
energy—natural gas, for example—which means the
standard would have a disastrous impact on energy
conservation.”
Tumilty knows both arguments well—he hears them
daily.
“I would like to emphasize that ASHRAE is not sticking
it’s head in the sand,” Tumilty says. “We recognize the
problem and are trying to resolve it.”