Regional Characteristics and Heating/Cooling Requirements for Single-Family Detached Houses

摘要

The purpose of the report was to develop a data base of standard buildings and building loads to be used as the basis for analysis of advanced residential gas technologies. A survey of all publicly available sources of residential building data was used to identify key data sources. Six houses representing different time periods and levels of thermal integrity were selected for each of 18 U.S. regions. Each house was characterized with respect to building characteristics and internal loads. The DOE-2.1B building load simulation program was used to calculate energy consumption for each of the houses. The building loads were also reformatted to temperature bin format and stored for later use.