Conference Paper

Proceedings of SimBuild Conference 2024

Developing Single Family Prototype Models for California

Mohammad Dabbagh, Rahul Athalye
NORESCO, Boulder, United States of America

Abstract: Currently, different policy-making agencies in California – including California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – use different sets of prototypes for analyzing the impact of efficiency, renewable, electrification, and decarbonization measures. This effort is aimed at creating a unified set of prototype models to represent California’s building stock and provide the agencies with a single set of prototypes for conducting their analysis.This paper demonstrates the results for single-family buildings sector. Data from several data sources including the Residential Appliance Saturation Study (2019 Residential Appliance Saturation Study (RASS)), American Housing Survey (AHS, 2019) and ResStock (NREL, 2022) was used and analysed extensively. As the next step, authors developed models based on the findings of the building stock assessment, which suggests a mixture of prototype models (i.e., four single family models within five vintage bins). Furthermore, the expansion of the models within all 16 California climate zones is discussed.
Keywords: California, single-family, multifamily, residential stock analysis, energyplus
Pages: 64 - 75
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