v0.9.1 (2023-12-18)

What's New

• Revise method for allocating end use electricity baselines in AEO from census divisions to EMM regions and states by using End Use Load Profiles data
• Add pyproject.toml file to enable one line installation of all packages required by Scout
• Add CPU and memory profiling to continuous integration testing on GitHub Actions
• Improve robustness of baseline data file preparation modules
• Minor fixes to measure data preparation and run modules and Read the Docs configuration

v0.9 (2023-10-10)

What's New

• Update to AEO 2023
  • Update energy and stock and technology cost, performance, and lifetime data
  • Update site-source energy conversions, CO2 emissions intensities, and energy prices
  • Revise peak and take period definitions to be consistent with 2023 EMM projections
  • Add new commercial miscellaneous electric load (MEL) categories and update numeric encoding of commercial MELs
• Update available AEO data and related infrastructure
  • Add federal and state cost incentives that reduce the initial cost of upgrades
  • For residential buildings, break out total installed costs for new versus existing buildings
  • For commercial buildings, begin pulling in "unspecified" building type and MELs technology type energy use data
  • Add tech_switch_to field to measures to ensure appropriate incentives are applied
  • Update measure definitions with tech_switch_to field
• Update to EIA API v2
• Update time series electricity costs and all emissions intensity data for moderate and high decarbonization scenarios to use 2022 Cambium scenarios and data
• Fix minor bugs in stock units handling and fugitive emissions calculations

v0.8.2 (2023-06-29)

What's New

• Update ECMs
  • Reflect current standards and specifications, e.g., IECC and ASHRAE 90.1, ENERGY STAR
  • Incorporate more recent reports on electrification costs
  • Incorporate latest EIA reference case equipment cost and performance data
• Add ground-source heat pump ECMs at ENERGY STAR and Best Available performance levels
• Update supporting data
  • Grid emissions, TSV carbon and cost files (based on NREL Cambium 2022)
  • Consumer price index data
  • Social cost of carbon
• Fix assorted bugs and improve robustness of plotting code, savings calculations, and results breakouts

v0.8.1 (2023-02-28)

What's New

• Update building envelope component cost, performance, and lifetime data
• Account for technology efficiency in service-demand-weighting of commercial building energy use
• Revise hourly price projections to approximate the effect of electricity prices being composed of fixed and hourly charges, and adjust them accordingly
• Adjust TSV savings shape calculations to account for slight differences in the baseline between the savings shape CSVs and the main baseline file tsv_load.gz
• Fix assorted bugs with plotting code, savings calculations, retrofit rate, and other features

v0.8 (2022-08-31)

What's New

• Update to AEO 2022
  • Remove DVD players and add over-the-top streaming devices
  • Split out residential pool heaters and pool pumps
  • Add new residential miscellaneous electric loads
  • Update site-source energy conversions, CO₂ emissions intensities, and energy prices to 2022 projections
  • Revise peak and take period definitions to be consistent with 2022 EMM projections

v0.7.3 (2022-08-31)

What's New

• Update example measure set to be consistent with the latest Benchmark Scenarios
• Add fugitive emissions accounting
  • Add accounting of CO₂-equivalent emissions from fugitive sources, including equipment refrigerant leakage and natural gas supply chain methane leakage
  • Add user options to assess emissions impacts from either one or both of these sources in the ecm_prep.py module
  • Add user options to assess conventional refrigerants (including phase-out dates) as well as custom or low-GWP alternatives
• Switch results figure generation code from R to Python
• Revise commercial other energy handling to ingest all baseline commercial energy use data
  • Add 'other' end use for all fuel types to all commercial building types
  • Add unique commercial 'unspecified' building type used for electricity for water services and telecom systems, as well as other fossil fuel energy
• Update hourly baseline load shapes and flexibility measures
  • Add distinct load/load savings shapes for all three residential building types
  • Revise flexibility measure characteristics to respond to updated peak/take periods consistent with 2022 EMM projections
  • Update hourly load data generated with ResStock v2.5.0 and DOE Commercial Prototypes run with OpenStudio v3.3.0

v0.7.2 (2022-05-31)

What's New

• Uncompeted, competed, captured stock reporting in results
• Detailed results breakout user options
  • All regions (for states, EMM regions)
  • Building type (instead of building class)
  • Fuel type
• Update to 2021 Cambium scenarios; add support for 95% by 2050 and 95% by 2035 Cambium scenarios
• Incorporate T&D losses in EMM region and state emissions factors
• Introduce support for technology diffusion parameters in ECM definitions to limit an ECM's adoption to below its maximum adoption potential
• Updates to calculations
  • Competed stock shares for heat pumps
  • Envelope measure cost packaging
  • Cost conversions
  • Captured stock in the year of a measure's market exit

v0.7.1.1 (2022-02-14)

What's New

• Update documentation to reflect new features added in v0.7.1
• Update peak and take window documentation to system load shapes from 2020 AEO NEMS EMM data
• Move test peak and take periods to a dedicated test file
• Fix cost conversion calculations for measures that apply to all residential or commercial buildings

v0.7.1 (2022-01-31)

What's New

• Translate commercial baseline stock and stock cost data to service demand units (e.g., kBtu/h heating served, $/kBtu/h heating served)
• Reduce data processing and write-out requirements for sector-level savings shape generation
• Refine stock turnover calculations and handling of measures with later market entry years within measure competition routines
• Fix bugs in the handling of building types and fuel splits in plotting routine
• Add several new user options, including:
  • Introduce reference case technologies to measure competition
  • Select from four scenarios of exogenous fuel switching conversion rates to determine fuel switching measure market shares
  • Select an alternate forecast for electricity carbon intensity consistent with 80% grid decarbonization by 2050
  • Use an alternate baseline forecast of electricity carbon intensity
  • Assume early retrofitting of equipment at technology-specific rates that can be increased by the user over time
  • Generate data for separating equipment vs. envelope impacts in packaged measures
  • Report more detailed breakouts of results by region and/or building type

v0.7 (2021-09-30)

What's New

• Update all baseline data to the EIA 2021 AEO
• Report onsite generation separately in results (in total and broken out by region/building type)
• Separate distillate and propane CO₂ emissions intensities and prices as part of residential "other fuel" technology calculations