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ResStock, built on the OpenStudio platform, is a project geared at modeling the residential building stock for, e.g., national, regional, or local analysis, using the EnergyPlus simulation engine.

ResStock is unique in the high level of granularity used to represent the diversity of housing stock characteristics and climates across the contiguous United States. ResStock brings together the use of large public and private data sets, statistical sampling, detailed sub-hourly building energy simulations, and high-performance computing resources.

Getting Started

This ResStock repository includes project files that are used to run simulations for, e.g., the entire national housing stock, and evaluate example efficiency upgrades for measures and/or packages. Currently the execution of these projects requires command line access.

See the Getting Started section for more information on setup, running simulations, viewing/downloading results, and defining efficiency upgrades.

Methodology

See the Methodology section for background on how ResStock works, including housing stock characterization, statistical sampling, baseline building simulations, validation/calibration, efficiency upgrade simulations, and technical and economic potential calculations.

Developers

ResStock currently makes use of OpenStudio Analysis Spreadsheets, which allow large-scale cloud analyses using OpenStudio measures. The project is structured in a flexible manner to allow extension or modification of, e.g., housing characteristics, building models, or output results.

Please see the Developers section for more information.