Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050

Langevin, Jared; Harris, Chioke B.; Satre-Meloy, Aven; Putra, Handi Chandra; Bianchi, Carlo; Clarke, Ardelia

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3158929

Title: Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050

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Overview and Intended Use Cases: These scenarios establish a range of futures for U.S. buildings sector energy use and CO2 emissions to 2050 using Scout (scout.energy.gov), a reproducible and granular model of U.S. building energy use, emissions, and consumer costs developed by the U.S. national labs for the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office (BTO). Scout benchmark scenario data are suitable for the following example use cases: setting high-level policy goals for the U.S. buildings sector to 2050 (e.g., X% building CO2 emissions reductions vs. 2005 levels by 2030, Y% reductions vs. 2005 levels by 2050); exploring the effects of key dynamics driving U.S. buildings sector energy and CO2 emissions to 2050 that could be affected by policy levers (e.g., raising minimum technology performance levels; accelerating electrification and/or retrofit rates; introducing breakthrough technologies to the market); determining priority segments (regions, building types, and end use/technology types) and sequencing of U.S. buildings sector energy and CO2 emissions reductions to 2050 under a given set of assumptions; and/or identifying the energy and emissions impacts or cost effectiveness of specific technologies or operational approaches of interest—in isolation or after considering competition with other measures in a scenario portfolio. Scenario Summary: A totalmore »« less

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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); OSTI
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue May 31 04:00:00 UTC 2022

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC36-08GO28308

Research Org.:: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; building decarbonization; building stock energy models; building-grid resource; buildings sector energy and emissions; demand flexibility; demand-side measures; electrification; energy efficiency; energy policy analysis; national climate goals

OSTI Identifier:: 1872532

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3158929

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                    Langevin, Jared, Harris, Chioke B., Satre-Meloy, Aven, Putra, Handi Chandra, Bianchi, Carlo, and Clarke, Ardelia. Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050.  United States: N. p., 2022. 
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                    Langevin, Jared, Harris, Chioke B., Satre-Meloy, Aven, Putra, Handi Chandra, Bianchi, Carlo, & Clarke, Ardelia. Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3158929

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                    Langevin, Jared, Harris, Chioke B., Satre-Meloy, Aven, Putra, Handi Chandra, Bianchi, Carlo, and Clarke, Ardelia. 2022.  
"Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3158929.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1872532. Pub date:Tue May 31 04:00:00 UTC 2022

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  title        = {Scout Benchmark Scenarios for U.S. Building Energy and CO2 Emissions to 2050},

  author       = {Langevin, Jared and Harris, Chioke B. and Satre-Meloy, Aven and Putra, Handi Chandra and Bianchi, Carlo and Clarke, Ardelia},

  abstractNote = {Overview and Intended Use Cases: These scenarios establish a range of futures for U.S. buildings sector energy use and CO2 emissions to 2050 using Scout (scout.energy.gov), a reproducible and granular model of U.S. building energy use, emissions, and consumer costs developed by the U.S. national labs for the U.S. Department of Energy's Building Technologies Office (BTO). Scout benchmark scenario data are suitable for the following example use cases: setting high-level policy goals for the U.S. buildings sector to 2050 (e.g., X% building CO2 emissions reductions vs. 2005 levels by 2030, Y% reductions vs. 2005 levels by 2050); exploring the effects of key dynamics driving U.S. buildings sector energy and CO2 emissions to 2050 that could be affected by policy levers (e.g., raising minimum technology performance levels; accelerating electrification and/or retrofit rates; introducing breakthrough technologies to the market); determining priority segments (regions, building types, and end use/technology types) and sequencing of U.S. buildings sector energy and CO2 emissions reductions to 2050 under a given set of assumptions; and/or identifying the energy and emissions impacts or cost effectiveness of specific technologies or operational approaches of interest—in isolation or after considering competition with other measures in a scenario portfolio. Scenario Summary: A total of 8 scenarios explore the effects of changes across both the demand- and supply-side of building energy use on annual U.S. building energy use and CO2 emissions from 2022–2050. Scenarios are organized into three groups representing low, moderate, and best-case potentials for building decarbonization, respectively.},

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