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IPE-82-1 1 (1982-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdnq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES DOE Funds New Energy Technologies Without Estimating Potential Net Energy Yields Public Laws 93-577 and 96-294 (title II) require the Department of Energy to analyze the potential net energy yields of new energy technologies proposed under the Acts before funding them. DOE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects without doing this. GAO demonstrates that net energy analysis is methodo- logically feasible to perform and that its performance is useful to policymakers in the Congress and DOE because (1) it offers them a basis for minimizing total energy use and for conserving domestic energy resources in the pro- duction of new energy products, (2) it guarantees them the opportunity to consider the net energy yields of proposed new energy technologies independent of economic risk questions, (3) it permits them to compare the net energy yields of specific plants and processes as well as their relative impacts on existing domestic resources and on imported premium fuel requirements, and (4) it gives them a method for deciding the introduction rates of energy- intensive technologies so as to avoid the creation of large energy deficits. GAO recommends that the Congress require DOE to con- sider the potential net energy yields of proposed technolo- gies and to provide the analytic support needed to imple- ment net energy analysis. GAO also recommends ways to strengthen the quality of the data base necessary not only for net energy analysis but also for the economic analysis used for comparing the costs of new energy technologies. GAO/IPE-82-1 JULY 26,1982 3o3f

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