Cost-Effectiveness of Home Energy Retrofits in Pre-Code Vintage Homes in the United States

Technical Report · Mon Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1059157· OSTI ID:1059157

Fairey, Philip ^[1]; Parker, Danny ^[1]

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1. Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), Cocoa, FL (United States)

This analytical study examines the opportunities for cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy retrofits in residential archetypes constructed prior to 1980 (Pre-Code) in fourteen U.S. cities. These fourteen cities are representative of each of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) climate zones in the contiguous U.S. The analysis is conducted using an in-house version of EnergyGauge USA v.2.8.05 named CostOpt that has been programmed to perform iterative, incremental economic optimization on a large list of residential energy efficiency and renewable energy retrofit measures. The principle objectives of the study are as follows: to determine the opportunities for cost effective source energy reductions in this large cohort of existing residential building stock as a function of local climate and energy costs; and to examine how retrofit financing alternatives impact the source energy reductions that are cost effectively achievable.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1059157
• Report Number(s): DOE/GO--102012-3786; KNDJ-0-40339-0
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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