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End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock
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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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dcat_issued2021-10-14T06:00:00Z
dcat_modified2023-06-10T23:36:39Z
dcat_publisher_nameNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
guidhttps://data.openei.org/submissions/4520
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  • Aggregate and Individual Building Timeseries End Use Load Profiles

  • Website for End Use Load Profiles project

  • Web-Based Data Viewer for Residential Load Profiles

  • Web-Based Data Viewer for Commercial Load Profiles

  • FAQ for End-Use Load Profiles Dataset

  • Technical Report Documenting Methodology

  • README.md