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Title: An internet tool for designing energy efficient homes

Abstract

To help their 4.5 million residential customers make energy efficient decisions, Southern California Gas asked UCLA to develop an Internet-based simulation tool called Project REED (Residential Energy Efficient Design). The critical problem is to give these ratepayers an easy way to visualize the relative effectiveness of their various options. REED is a internet-based tool that calculates the annual gas and electricity cost for each separate building design or operating decision. Hourly climate data for the Typical Meteorological Year (TMY2) in all the climate zones in the SoCalGas service area are built in, as well as utility rates for each type of residential service. REED's Expert System first designs a basic Code Compliant home, then designs a more Energy Efficient design based on local climate, and it shows how much money ratepayers would save. The simulation engine inside REED is SOLAR-5, one of the nation's most widely used whole building energy design tools. SOLAR-5 has been validated against DOE-2 using the BESTEST procedure. This paper, one of a pair describing REED, explains the project from the user's point of view and describes what was learned from the Ratepayer Usability Test. The second paper explains the project from the simulation and softwaremore » engineering point of view.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (US)
OSTI Identifier:
20050795
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: SOLAR 99, Portland, ME (US), 06/12/1999--06/16/1999; Other Information: PBD: 1999; Related Information: In: Solar 99 conference: Proceedings of ASES annual conference -- Proceedings of 24th national passive solar conference, by Campbell-Howe, R.; Wilkins-Crowder, B. [eds.], 779 pages.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; R CODES; S CODES; ENERGY ACCOUNTING

Citation Formats

Milne, M, Gomez, C, Leeper, D, Zurick, J, Nindra, A, Shen, J, and Kobayashi, Y. An internet tool for designing energy efficient homes. United States: N. p., 1999. Web.
Milne, M, Gomez, C, Leeper, D, Zurick, J, Nindra, A, Shen, J, & Kobayashi, Y. An internet tool for designing energy efficient homes. United States.
Milne, M, Gomez, C, Leeper, D, Zurick, J, Nindra, A, Shen, J, and Kobayashi, Y. 1999. "An internet tool for designing energy efficient homes". United States.
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title = {An internet tool for designing energy efficient homes},
author = {Milne, M and Gomez, C and Leeper, D and Zurick, J and Nindra, A and Shen, J and Kobayashi, Y},
abstractNote = {To help their 4.5 million residential customers make energy efficient decisions, Southern California Gas asked UCLA to develop an Internet-based simulation tool called Project REED (Residential Energy Efficient Design). The critical problem is to give these ratepayers an easy way to visualize the relative effectiveness of their various options. REED is a internet-based tool that calculates the annual gas and electricity cost for each separate building design or operating decision. Hourly climate data for the Typical Meteorological Year (TMY2) in all the climate zones in the SoCalGas service area are built in, as well as utility rates for each type of residential service. REED's Expert System first designs a basic Code Compliant home, then designs a more Energy Efficient design based on local climate, and it shows how much money ratepayers would save. The simulation engine inside REED is SOLAR-5, one of the nation's most widely used whole building energy design tools. SOLAR-5 has been validated against DOE-2 using the BESTEST procedure. This paper, one of a pair describing REED, explains the project from the user's point of view and describes what was learned from the Ratepayer Usability Test. The second paper explains the project from the simulation and software engineering point of view.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1999}
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