Commercial and Residential Hourly Load Profiles for all TMY3 Locations in the United States

Description

Note: This dataset has been superseded by the dataset found at "End-Use Load Profiles for the U.S. Building Stock" (submission 4520; linked in the submission resources), which is a comprehensive and validated representation of hourly load profiles in the U.S. commercial and residential building stock. The End-Use Load Profiles project website includes links to data viewers for this new dataset. For documentation of dataset validation, model calibration, and uncertainty quantification, see Wilson et al. (2022). These data were first created around 2012 as a byproduct of various analyses of solar photovoltaics and solar water heating (see references below for are two examples). This dataset contains several errors and limitations. It is recommended that users of this dataset transition to the updated version of the dataset posted in the resources. This dataset contains weather data, commercial load profile data, and residential load profile data. Weather The Typical Meteorological Year 3 (TMY3) provides one year of hourly data for around 1,000 locations. The TMY weather represents 30-year normals, which are typical weather conditions over a 30-year period. Commercial The commercial load profiles included are the 16 ASHRAE 90.1-2004 DOE Commercial Prototype Models simulated in all TMY3 locations, with building insulation levels changing based on ASHRAE 90.1-2004 requirements in each climate zone. The folder names within each resource represent the weather station location of the profiles, whereas the file names represent the building type and the representative city for the ASHRAE climate zone that was used to determine code compliance insulation levels. As indicated by the file names, all building models represent construction that complied with the ASHRAE 90.1-2004 building energy code requirements. No older or newer vintages of buildings are represented. Residential The BASE residential load profiles are five EnergyPlus models (one per climate region) representing 2009 IECC construction single-family detached homes simulated in all TMY3 locations. No older or newer vintages of buildings are represented. Each of the five climate regions include only one heating fuel type; electric heating is only found in the Hot-Humid climate. Air conditioning is not found in the Marine climate region. One major issue with the residential profiles is that for each of the five climate zones, certain location-specific algorithms from one city were applied to entire climate zones. For example, in the Hot-Humid files, the heating season calculated for Tampa, FL (December 1 - March 31) was unknowingly applied to all other locations in the Hot-Humid zone, which restricts heating operation outside of those days (for example, heating is disabled in Dallas, TX during cold weather in November). This causes the heating energy to be artificially low in colder parts of that climate zone, and conversely the cooling season restriction leads to artificially low cooling energy use in hotter parts of each climate zone. Additionally, the ground temperatures for the representative city were used across the entire climate zone. This affects water heating energy use (because inlet cold water temperature depends on ground temperature) and heating/cooling energy use (because of ground heat transfer through foundation walls and floors). Representative cities were Tampa, FL (Hot-Humid), El Paso, TX (Mixed-Dry/Hot-Dry), Memphis, TN (Mixed-Humid), Arcata, CA (Marine), and Billings, MT (Cold/Very-Cold). The residential dataset includes a HIGH building load profile that was intended to provide a rough approximation of older home vintages, but it combines poor thermal insulation with larger house size, tighter thermostat setpoints, and less efficient HVAC equipment. Conversely, the LOW building combines excellent thermal insulation with smaller house size, wider thermostat setpoints, and more efficient HVAC equipment. However, it is not known how well these HIGH and LOW permutations represent the range of energy use in the housing stock. Note that on July 2nd, 2013, the Residential High and Low load files were updated from 366 days in a year for leap years to the more general 365 days in a normal year. The archived residential load data is included from prior to this date.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Browse the data files directly on the server https://en.openei.org/datasets/files/961/pub/
57 All residential building load data in a compressed zip file https://data.openei.org/files/153/RESIDENTIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.zip
57 Parts 1-10 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.tar.zip
19 Part 1 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part1.tar.gz
19 Part 2 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part2.tar.gz
19 Part 4 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part4.tar.gz
19 Part 7 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part7.tar.gz
19 Part 5 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part5.tar.gz
19 Part 9 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part9.tar.gz
19 Commercial Load Data Part 8 https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part8.tar.gz
57 Compressed file of all residential building load data prior to July 2, 2013 https://data.openei.org/files/153/RESIDENTIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT-before-7-2-13.zip
21 The 16 commercial building types in this dataset are referenced from the DOE's commercial reference buildings https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/commercial-reference-buildings
33 From the first reference in the description. Serves as an example of analyses of solar photovoltaics and solar water heating for the superseding dataset. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/56461.pdf
33 From the second reference in the description. Serves as an example of analyses of solar photovoltaics and solar water heating for the superseding dataset. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy13osti/57276.pdf
33 Documentation for the data index https://data.openei.org/files/153/buildingcharacteristicsforresidentialhourlyloaddata.pdf
19 Commercial Load Data Part 10 https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part10.tar.gz
33 The residential buildings in this dataset are based on the specifications in NREL's Building America house simulation protocols https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy11osti/49246.pdf
19 Part 3 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part3.tar.gz
57 Residential base load data for TMY2 (second edition of Typical Meteorological Year) at the 237 TMY locations in the United States. https://data.openei.org/files/153/EPLUS_TMY2_RESIDENTIAL_BASE.zip
21 This data set supersedes "Commercial and Residential Hourly Load Profiles for all TMY3 Locations in the United States". This dataset is a comprehensive and validated representation of hourly load profiles in the U.S. commercial and residential building stock. https://data.openei.org/submissions/4520
21 This dataset uses RECS for statistical references of building types by location https://www.eia.gov/consumption/residential/
19 Part 6 of commercial building load data https://data.openei.org/files/153/COMMERCIAL_LOAD_DATA_E_PLUS_OUTPUT.part6.tar.gz

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  • kwh
  • data
  • residential-energy-consumption-survey
  • tmy3
  • building-america
  • building-load
  • building-demand
  • profiles
  • consumption
  • commercial-reference-buildings
  • load
  • energyplus
  • residential
  • energy-data
  • energy-consumption
  • hourly
  • building
  • tmy2
  • commercial
  • house
  • recs
  • demand
  • simulation
  • energy

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