Leveraging NREL's ResStock & ComStock Dataset to Evaluate Building Stock Electrification: Preprint

Conference · Thu Aug 22 00:00:00 EDT 2024

OSTI ID:2438452

Landsman, Jared; Bertolacini, Molly; Shah, Aneri; Alberga, Dan; Andrews, Dyami; Sontag, Michael; Van Sant, Amy; Dahlhausen, Matthew

Residential and commercial buildings accounted for 40% of U.S. energy consumption in 2022 and represent a significant opportunity for decarbonization through energy efficiency and electrification, and for grid planning. Building stock energy modeling is a powerful tool that can evaluate what-if scenarios as utilities, municipalities, policymakers, building owners and others work towards equitable building decarbonization and climate goals. This presentation will highlight several high-impact use cases of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)'s highly granular, bottom-up building stock energy modeling tools, ResStock and ComStock. These use cases cover a wide range of project scale, from neighborhood electrification analysis and municipality long-term energy planning, to state energy code development and national policy evaluation. This presentation will showcase specific real-world applications for which ResStock and ComStock have been utilized across the country, including California codes and standards cost-effectiveness analysis, New York City affordable housing electrification cost gap analysis, and California targeted electrification and gas decommissioning analysis. For each use case, this presentation will illustrate how ResStock and ComStock played a crucial role in accurately characterizing regional building stocks, providing discrete and aggregated end-use load shapes, and calculating lifecycle consumption, emissions, and costs for a variety of building electrification strategies and scenarios. Finally, this presentation will demonstrate how the data provided by ResStock and ComStock can help unlock significant outcomes for these use cases, including but not limited to, customer bill impact, incentive and program design, and energy equity analyses.

• 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: 2438452
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5500-90957; MainId:92735; UUID:66dd53dc-d29c-497e-8773-b02e897f934e; MainAdminId:73464
• Conference Information: Presented at the 2024 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, 4-9 August 2024, Pacific Grove, California
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

building stock modeling
decarbonization
electrification
ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
energy equity