Cost Effectiveness of Home Energy Retrofits in Pre-Code Vintage Homes in the United States
- BA-PIRC/Florida Solar Energy Center, 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 United States. 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 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:
- BA-PIRC/Florida Solar Energy Center, Cocoa, FL (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; KNDJ-0-40339-02
- OSTI ID:
- 1219821
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/GO-102012-3786; 5999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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