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Potential Heating Energy and Cost Savings of Dual Fuel Heat Pump Controls as a Residential Building Equipment Retrofit in the U.S

Conference · · ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference Proceedings of the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild
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  1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory
  2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  3. Newport Partners LLC
This study investigated the energy and cost savings potential by modeling a dual fuel heat pump system with its control for a residential building in (5A) cold climate in U.S. The simulation analysis showed that the application of the DFHP system and its control to the target building can save the heating energy by 42% over a gas furnace system (baseline system). Although the HP-only system can save more heating energy (i.e.,53%) over the baseline system than DFHP system does, the DFHP with its control demonstrated the higher cost savings when a time of use electricity rate was considered.
Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Newport Partners LLC
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
DOE Contract Number:
EE0009076
OSTI ID:
2349110
Conference Information:
Journal Name: ASHRAE/IBPSA-USA Building Simulation Conference Proceedings of the 2022 Building Performance Analysis Conference and SimBuild
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English