A Bottom-Up Engineering Estimate of the Aggregate Heating and Cooling Loads of the Entire U.S. Building Stock Metadata

Title

• Main Title A Bottom-Up Engineering Estimate of the Aggregate Heating and Cooling Loads of the Entire U.S. Building Stock

Creator

• Author: Huang, Yu Joe
  Creator Type: Personal
• Author: Brodrick, Jim
  Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

• Sponsor: Building Technologies Program (U.S.)
  Contributor Type: Organization
  Contributor Info: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Development. Office of the Building Technologies Program

Publisher

• Name: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  Place of Publication: Berkeley, California
  Additional Info: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)

Date

• Creation: 2000-08-01

Language

• English

Description

• Content Description: A recently completed project for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Building Equipment combined DOE-2 results for a large set of prototypical commercial and residential buildings with data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) residential and commercial energy consumption surveys (RECS, CBECS) to estimate the total heating and cooling loads in U.S. buildings attributable to different shell components such as windows, roofs, walls, etc., internal processes, and space-conditioning systems. This information is useful for estimating the national conservation potentials for DOE's research and market transformation activities in building energy efficiency. The prototypical building descriptions and DOE-2 input files were developed from 1986 to 1992 to provide benchmark hourly building loads for the Gas Research Institute (GRI) and include 112 single-family, 66 multi-family, and 481 commercial building prototypes. The DOE study consisted of two distinct tasks : (1) perform DOE-2 simulations for the prototypical buildings and develop methods to extract the heating and cooling loads attributable to the different building components; and (2) estimate the number of buildings or floor area represented by each prototypical building based on EIA survey information. These building stock data were then multiplied by the simulated component loads to derive aggregated totals by region, vintage, and building type. The heating and cooling energy consumption of the national building stock estimated by this bottom-up engineering approach was found to agree reasonably well with estimates from other sources, although significant differences were found for certain end-uses. The main added value from this study, however, is the insight it provides about the contributing factors behind this energy consumption, and what energy savings can be expected from efficiency improvements for different building components by region, vintage, and building type.

Subject

• Keyword: Efficiency
• Keyword: Energy Consumption
• Keyword: Residential Buildings
• Keyword: Us Energy Information Administration
• Keyword: Roofs
• Keyword: Heating
• STI Subject Categories: 32 Energy Conservation, Consumption, And Utilization
• Keyword: Floors
• Keyword: Commercial Buildings
• Keyword: Energy Efficiency
• Keyword: Cooling Load
• Keyword: Benchmarks
• Keyword: Transformations
• Keyword: Market

Source

• Conference: 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency inBuildings, Pacific Grove, CA, August 20-25, 2000

Collection

• Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
  Code: OSTI

Institution

• Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
  Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

• Article

Format

• Text

Identifier

• Report No.: LBNL--46303
• Grant Number: DE-AC02-05CH11231
• Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 877608
• Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc878622