End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock
The United States is embarking on an ambitious transition to a 100% clean energy economy by 2050, which will require improving the flexibility of electric grids. One way to achieve grid flexibility is to shed or shift demand to align with changing grid needs. To facilitate this, it is critical to understand how and when energy is used. High quality end-use load profiles (EULPs) provide this information, and can help cities, states, and utilities understand the time-sensitive value of energy efficiency, demand response, and distributed energy resources. Publicly available EULPs have traditionally had limited application because of age and incomplete geographic representation. To help fill this gap, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded a three-year project, End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock, that culminated in this publicly available dataset of calibrated and validated 15-minute resolution load profiles for all major residential and commercial building types and end uses, across all climate regions in the United States. These EULPs were created by calibrating the ResStock and ComStock physics-based building stock models using many different measured datasets, as described in the "Technical Report Documenting Methodology" linked in the submission.
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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). (2021). End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock [data set]. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1876417.
Wilson, Eric, Parker, Andrew, Fontanini, Anthony, Present, Elaina, Reyna, Janet, Adhikari, Rajendra, Bianchi, Carlo, CaraDonna, Christopher, Dahlhausen, Matthew, Kim, Janghyun, LeBar, Amy, Liu, Lixi, Praprost, Marlena, White, Philip, Zhang, Liang, DeWitt, Peter, Merket, Noel, Speake, Andrew, Hong, Tianzhen, Li, Han, Mims Frick, Natalie, Wang, Zhe, Blair, Aileen, Horsey, Henry, Roberts, David, Trenbath, Kim, Adekanye, Oluwatobi, Bonnema, Eric, El Kontar, Rawad, Gonzalez, Jonathan, Horowitz, Scott, Jones, Dalton, Muehleisen, Ralph, Platthotam, Siby, Reynolds, Matthew, Robertson, Joseph, Sayers, Kevin, and Li, Qu. End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock. United States: N.p., 14 Oct, 2021. Web. doi: 10.25984/1876417.
Wilson, Eric, Parker, Andrew, Fontanini, Anthony, Present, Elaina, Reyna, Janet, Adhikari, Rajendra, Bianchi, Carlo, CaraDonna, Christopher, Dahlhausen, Matthew, Kim, Janghyun, LeBar, Amy, Liu, Lixi, Praprost, Marlena, White, Philip, Zhang, Liang, DeWitt, Peter, Merket, Noel, Speake, Andrew, Hong, Tianzhen, Li, Han, Mims Frick, Natalie, Wang, Zhe, Blair, Aileen, Horsey, Henry, Roberts, David, Trenbath, Kim, Adekanye, Oluwatobi, Bonnema, Eric, El Kontar, Rawad, Gonzalez, Jonathan, Horowitz, Scott, Jones, Dalton, Muehleisen, Ralph, Platthotam, Siby, Reynolds, Matthew, Robertson, Joseph, Sayers, Kevin, & Li, Qu. End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock. United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1876417
Wilson, Eric, Parker, Andrew, Fontanini, Anthony, Present, Elaina, Reyna, Janet, Adhikari, Rajendra, Bianchi, Carlo, CaraDonna, Christopher, Dahlhausen, Matthew, Kim, Janghyun, LeBar, Amy, Liu, Lixi, Praprost, Marlena, White, Philip, Zhang, Liang, DeWitt, Peter, Merket, Noel, Speake, Andrew, Hong, Tianzhen, Li, Han, Mims Frick, Natalie, Wang, Zhe, Blair, Aileen, Horsey, Henry, Roberts, David, Trenbath, Kim, Adekanye, Oluwatobi, Bonnema, Eric, El Kontar, Rawad, Gonzalez, Jonathan, Horowitz, Scott, Jones, Dalton, Muehleisen, Ralph, Platthotam, Siby, Reynolds, Matthew, Robertson, Joseph, Sayers, Kevin, and Li, Qu. 2021. "End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock". United States. https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1876417. https://data.openei.org/submissions/4520.
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https://dx.doi.org/10.25984/1876417
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Data from Oct 14, 2021
Last updated Mar 28, 2024
Submitted May 2, 2022
Organization
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Contact
NREL Load Profiles Project Team
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Research Areas
Keywords
energy, power, buildings, commercial, residential, electricity, natural gas, load profile, load shape, Building Stock, US Building Stock, building, building science, building efficiency, demand response, EULP, End Use Load Profiles, load, end use, grid flexibility, grid, ResStock, ComStock, models, load profilesDOE Project Details
Project Name End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock
Project Number FY19 AOP 3.4.6.57