Publications
NREL Reports, Papers, and Presentations
Impact Analysis of Transitioning to Heat Pump Rooftop Units for the U.S. Commercial Building Stock (2023)
Exploration of the effects of transitioning all installed, existing RTUs to high performance heat pump RTUs for the U.S. commercial building stock.
ComStock Documentation (2023)
Methodology and assumptions behind ComStock.
Building Stock Cluster Methodology Documentation (2023)
Clustering of counties together represents a similarity of building characteristics and climate zone.
U.S. Building Stock Characterization Study (2022)
A National Typology for Decarbonizing U.S.
End-Use Load Profiles Executive Summary (2022)
Executive summary of the End Use Load Profile Technical Report.
End-Use Load Profiles Technical Report (2022)
Documents the EULP dataset, including detailed description of model improvements made for calibration, along with an explanation of validation and uncertainty of results.
LA100 Executive Summary (2021)
The Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study.
Related Work
ResStock Publication Page
Publications to date using the ResStock analysis.
Choosing the Best Carbon Factor for the Job
Explores available carbon emissions factors and the impact of factor selection.
Practical Guidance and Use Cases – Berkeley National Lab
Example applications and considerations for utilities.
Time-Sensitive Value (TSV) Calculator - Berkeley National Lab
Excel-based tool from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab that estimates the value of energy efficiency and other distributed energy resource (DER) measures using hourly estimates of electricity system costs.
Other Media
NREL Building Stock Dashboards on Tableau Public
Project dashboards using ComStock and ResStock data.