July 26, 2009
Conference Paper

The Temperature Sensitivity of the Residential Load and Commercial Building Load

Abstract

This paper presents a building modeling approach to quickly quantify climate change impacts on energy consumption, peak load, and load composition of residential and commercial buildings. This research focuses on addressing the impact of temperature changes on the building heating and cooling load in 10 major cities across the Western United States and Canada. A building simulation software are first used to quantify the hourly energy consumption of different building types by end-use and by vintage. Then, the temperature sensitivities are derived based on the climate data inputs.

Revised: July 4, 2010 | Published: July 26, 2009

Citation

Lu N., Z.T. Taylor, W. Jiang, J. Correia, L.R. Leung, and P.C. Wong. 2009. "The Temperature Sensitivity of the Residential Load and Commercial Building Load." In IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PES '09), July 26-30, 2009, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-63626. doi:10.1109/PES.2009.5275654