Publications

NREL Reports, Papers, Presentations, and Webinar Recordings

Reports and Papers

Griffith Keating et al. (2024). Development and application of a load forecasting tool using publicly available building stock model datasets for an independent system operator (ISO). Using the tool, the ISO investigated the energy and demand impacts of heating electrification in their region.

Jared Landsman et al. (2024). Specific, real-world applications of ResStock and ComStock including California codes and standards cost-effectiveness analysis, New York City affordable housing retrofit cost gap analysis, and California targeted retrofit analysis.

Shourya Bose et al. (2024). Forecasting models developed using open-source foundation modeling. The model was trained and tested using ComStock load profiles.

Andrew Parker et al. (2024). This document discusses the development of a segmentation approach for the U.S. commercial building stock that focuses on identifying similarities that align with common retrofit strategies.
DOI: 10.2172/2352708

Lauren Adams et al. (2023). This is a series of reports that provide commercial and multifamily building characteristic and energy data for 88 local geographies. For details about the geography selection methodology, see the Building Stock Cluster Methodology Documentation.

Chris CaraDonna et al. (2023). Exploration of the effects of transitioning all installed, existing RTUs to high performance heat pump RTUs for the U.S. commercial building stock.

Andrew Parker et al. (2023). ComStock reference documentation, providing the methodology and assumptions behind ComStock.
DOI: 10.2172/1967948

Harry Bergmann et al. (2023). Clustering of counties together represents a similarity of building characteristics and climate zone.
DOI: 10.2172/1984212

Janet Reyna et al. (2022). A national typology for U.S. buildings to help identify technology requirements and engineering solutions for retrofits.
DOI: 10.2172/1877069

Eric Wilson et al. (2022). Executive summary of the End Use Load Profile Technical Report.

Eric Wilson et al. (2022). Documents the EULP dataset, including detailed description of model improvements made for calibration, along with an explanation of validation and uncertainty of results.
DOI: 10.2172/1854582

Jaquelin Cochran et al. (2021). The Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study.
DOI: 10.2172/1774871

Presentations

Chris CaraDonna et al. (2025). Standard dataset release 2024 Release 2 webinar slide deck.

Chris CaraDonna et al. (2024). End-Use Savings Shapes Commercial 2024 Release 1 webinar slide deck.
DOI: 10.2172/2342004

Chris CaraDonna et al. (2023). End-Use Savings Shapes Commercial 2023 Release 2 webinar slide deck.
DOI: 10.2172/2228664

Chris CaraDonna et al. (2023). End-Use Savings Shapes Commercial 2023 Release 1 webinar slide deck.
DOI: 10.2172/1991505

Lauren Adams et al. (2023). Introduction presentation to ComStock, including high-level methodology, example use cases and how to access the data.
DOI: 10.2172/1999776

Webinar Recordings

Chris CaraDonna (2025). Presented by Chris CaraDonna from NREL, provides details on recent ComStock baseline model improvements, new upgrade measures, sample results, and data access tips. (January 2025)

Chris CaraDonna (2024). Presented by Chris CaraDonna from NREL, provides full details on End-Use Savings Shapes for commercial buildings, sample results, and data access tips. (April 2024)

Chris CaraDonna (2023). Presented by Chris CaraDonna from NREL, provides full details on End-Use Savings Shapes for commercial buildings, sample results, and data access tips. (October 2023)

Chris CaraDonna (2023). Presented by Chris CaraDonna from NREL, provides full details on End-Use Savings Shapes for commercial buildings, sample results, and data access tips. (March 2023)

Related Work

NREL. Publications to date using the ResStock analysis.

David Pudleiner et al. (2024). Examination of the lifecycle cost optimal building performance standard compliance pathway through building energy models.

ISO New England (2023). Presentation about a forecasting tool developed using ComStock and ResStock datasets.

Kaiyu Sun et al. (2023). Report detailing prototype district models.

Margaret Pigman et al. (2023).Example applications and considerations for utilities.
DOI: 10.2172/1906716

Elaina Present et al. (2022). Explores available emissions factors and the impact of factor selection.

Natalie Mims Frick et al. (2022). Excel-based tool from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab that estimates the value of energy efficiency and other distributed energy resource measures using hourly estimates of electricity system costs.

Other Media

NREL ComStock Dashboards on Tableau Public. Project dashboards using ComStock data.

NREL ResStock Dashboards on Tableau Public. Project dashboards using ResStock data.