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Analysis of Strategies for Reducing Multiple Emissions from Power Plants:
Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, and Carbon Dioxide

Table 5.  National Energy Modeling System Energy Activities

Energy Activity

Categories

Regions

Residential Demand

Fourteen end-use services
Three housing types
Thirty-four end-use technologies

Nine Census divisions

Commercial Demand

Ten end-use services
Eleven building types
Ten distributed generation technologies
Sixty-four end-use technologies

Nine Census divisions

Industrial Demand

Seven energy-intensive industries
Eight non-energy-intensive industries
Cogeneration

Four Census regions

Transportation Demand

Six car sizes
Six light truck sizes
Fifty-nine conventional fuel-saving
 technologies for light-duty vehicles
Gasoline, diesel, and thirteen alternative-fuel
 vehicle technologies for light-duty vehicles
Twenty vintages for light-duty vehicles
Narrow and wide body aircraft
Six advanced aircraft technologies
Medium and heavy freight trucks
Ten advanced freight truck technologies

Nine Census divisions

Electricity

Eleven fossil technologies
Seven renewable technologies
Conventional and advanced nuclear
Marginal and average cost pricing
Generation capacity expansion

Thirteen electricity supply regions
Nine Census divisions for demand

Renewables

Wind, geothermal, solar thermal, solar
 photovoltaic, municipal solid waste,
 biomass, conventional hydropower

Thirteen electricity supply regions

Oil Supply

Conventional onshore and shallow offshore
Conventional deep offshore
Enhanced oil recovery

Six lower 48 onshore regions
Three lower 48 offshore regions
Three Alaska regions

Natural Gas Supply

Conventional onshore and shallow offshore
Conventional deep offshore
Coalbed methane
Gas shales
Tight sands
Canadian, Mexican, and liquefied natural gas

Six lower 48 onshore regions
Three lower 48 offshore regions
Three Alaska regions
Five liquefied natural gas terminals

Natural Gas Transportation and Distribution

Core vs. noncore
Peak vs. offpeak
Pipeline capacity expansion

Twelve lower 48 regions
Ten pipeline border points

Petroleum Refining

Five crude oil categories
Seven product categories
Thirty-three technologies
Refinery capacity expansion

Three refinery regions aggregated from
 Petroleum Administration for District Districts

Coal Supply

Three sulfur categories
Four thermal categories
Underground and surface mining types

Eleven supply regions
Thirteen demand regions
Sixteen export regions
Twenty import regions

Source: Energy Information Administration, National Energy Modeling System: An Overview 2000, DOE/EIA-0581(2000) (Washington, DC, March 2000).

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