Assessment of the U.S. Department of Energy's Home Energy Scoring Tool

Technical Report · Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1047928· OSTI ID:1047928

Roberts, David ^[1]; Merket, Noel ^[1]; Polly, Ben ^[1]; Heaney, Mike ^[1]; Casey, Sean ^[1]; Robertson, Joseph ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) conducted a series of assessments of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) proposed Home Energy Scoring Tool (HEST). This report is an assessment of the 4/27/2012 release of HEST. Predictions of electric and natural gas consumption were compared with weather-normalized utility billing data for a mixture of newer and older homes located in Oregon, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Carolina and Texas.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B) (Building America)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1047928
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-5500-54074
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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