ResStock - Targeting Energy and Cost Savings for U.S. Homes
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
The ResStock analysis tool is helping states, municipalities, utilities, and manufacturers identify which home upgrades save the most energy and money. Across the country there's a vast diversity in the age, size, construction practices, installed equipment, appliances, and resident behavior of the housing stock, not to mention the range of climates. These variations have hindered the accuracy of predicting savings for existing homes. Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed ResStock. It's a versatile tool that takes a new approach to large-scale residential energy analysis by combining: large public and private data sources, statistical sampling, detailed subhourly building simulations, high-performance computing. This combination achieves unprecedented granularity and most importantly - accuracy - in modeling the diversity of the single-family housing stock.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (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:
- 1398250
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/FS-5500-68653
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
ResStock: Annual Baseline Results with Component Loads
Achieving 50% Energy Savings in Chicago Homes: A Case Study for Advancing Equity and Climate Goals