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onclusions   End-use analysis is essential for determining where to spend limited program implementation dollars.   The single most rapidly growing segment of the buildings sector is the so-called "miscellaneous electricity" end-use. Eliminating growth in this end-use would suffice to keep buildings sector carbon emissions at 1990 levels through 2010.   While growth in many end-uses has been reduced or eliminated by efficiency standards, utility programs, and other government policies, growth in miscellaneous electricity use has traditionally been ignored.   Further work is needed to gather technology and trend data on the miscellaneous electricity end-use and to determine which policy instruments are most likely to be effective.