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| Action - New residential thermal demand | Introduce new building code energy use improvements in residential buildings | |
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| How would you like to specify electricity savings per building? | 1) passive house standard (15 kWh / yr) 2) 2) percent improvement per five years |
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| Table: Please enter 1 for each dwelling type to which building code applies | ||
| Table: Please enter annual uptake rate for each year | ||
| Action - New commercial thermal demand | Introduce new building code energy use improvements in non-residential buildings | |
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| How would you like to specify electricity savings per building? | 1) passive house standard (15 kWh / yr) 2) 2) percent improvement per five years |
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| Table: Please enter 1 for each building type to be retrofitted | ||
| Table: Please enter annual uptake rate for each year | ||
| Action - Retrofit homes | Introduce energy use improvements in existing residential buildings | |
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| Table: Please enter 1 for each dwelling type to be retrofitted | ||
| Table: Please enter 1 for each year built to be retrofitted | ||
| How would you like to specify the number of buildings to be retrofitted? | 1) Specify fraction of buildings per year through a table 2) Retrofit rate increases exponentially until all historical stock is retrofitted |
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| Please enter the year in which retrofits will begin | default = 2018 | |
| Please enter the year in which retrofits will stop | default = 2050 | |
| Please enter percent of available buildings to be retrofitted by end year | default = 100% | |
| How would you like to specify electricity savings per building? | 1) specify electricity savings in absolute units (kWh / yr) 2) specify electricity savings as percent |
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| Please enter the target annual electricity percent savings per building (%) | default = 7 | |
| Please enter the target percent reduction in thermal demand per building (%) | default = 8 | |
| Action - Retrofits ICI sector | Introduce energy use improvements in existing non-residential buildings | |
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| Table: Please enter 1 for each building type to be retrofitted | ||
| How would you like to specify the amount to be retrofitted? | 1) fraction of buildings 2) Retrofit rate increases exponentially until all historical stock is retrofitted |
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| How would you like to specify electricity savings per building? | 1) specify electricity savings in absolute units (kWh / yr) 2) specify electricity savings as percent |
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| Please enter the target annual electricity percent savings per building (%) | default = 7 | |
| Please enter the target percent reduction in thermal demand per building (%) | default = 8 | |
| Action - Industrial efficiency | Improve industrial fuel use efficiency | |
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| How would you like to specify industrial efficiency? | 1) Efficiency gains by fuel type 2) Efficiency gains by end use |
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| Table: Please enter the efficiency improvement percent (%) | ||
| Action - PV ground mount | Add solar power capacity to community | |
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| Table: Please enter MW of PV generation in the zones required | ||
| Action - PV Solar Net Metered | Add solar power capacity to existing dwellings and non-residential buildings | |
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| Table: Please enter the annual Residential uptake rate for each year | ||
| Table: Please enter the annual Residential load covered on site for each year | ||
| Table: Please enter the annual Non-Residential uptake rate for each year | ||
| Table: Please enter the annual Non-Residential load covered on site for each year | ||
| Action - Wind power | Add wind power capacity to community | |
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| Table: Please enter MW of wind generation in the zones required | ||
| Action - electrify personal LD vehicles | Specify EV adoption horizon (market share) | |
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| What is your target year for 100% of new vehicle sales to be EV? | default = 2045 | |
| What is your transition duration (years)? | default = 20 | |
| Action - electrify commercial LD vehicles | Specify EV adoption horizon (market share) | |
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| What is your target year for 100% of new vehicle sales to be EV? | default = 2045 | |
| What is your transition duration (years)? | default = 20 | |
| Action - increase walk mode share | Increase walk mode share for walkable trips within distance threshold (2km) | |
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| What fraction of non-active walkable trips do you want to convert to walk trips? | default = 0.5 | |
| Model-Wide Summaries | ||
| Report Emissions | Report emissions for each sector and fuel type. Total emissions are reported in relation to an 80% by 2050 emissions reductions target. | |
| Report Energy | Report energy use for each sector and fuel type. Includes demand side local energy production fuel use. | |
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| Analysis - Buildings | Choropleth maps of building-related state and growth | |
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| 1) geomap residential building density | Choropleth maps of dwelling unit densities. Total (state) and accumulated new. Single-scenario support only. |
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| 2) geomap non residential floorspace density | Choropleth maps of non-residential floorspace densities. Total (state) and accumulated new. Single-scenario support only. |
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| Analysis - Passenger Transportation Demand | Various passenger transportation results and statistics | |
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| 2) personal transportation summary | Displays graphs and then tables of: - Daily person trips - Mode Share - Average vehicle trip length by purpose - Average vehicle trip length - Annual passenger VKT by purpose geographic (75% ext) - Annual passenger VKT by purpose induced (50% ext) - Average annual passenger VKT per resident vehicle |
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| 3) geomap mode shares | Choropleth maps of mode share of trip ends. Internal trips only. Single-scenario support only. |
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| 5) geomap passenger VKT | Choropleth maps of: - home-based VKT by zone from - home-based VKT per capita by zone from. Internal trips only. Single-scenario support only. |
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| Sensitivity | ||
| Sensitivity - Adjust new residential buildings | Increase or decrease the number of new residential buildings | |
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| What is the target percent change? | Specify a positive percent to increase to increase buildings and a negative percent to decrease buildings from target | |
| Sensitivity - Adjust new non residential buildings | Increase or decrease the number of new non residential buildings | |
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| What is the target percent change? | Specify a positive percent to increase to increase buildings and a negative percent to decrease buildings from target | |
| Sensitivity - Track adjusted population | Increase or decrease the population of the municipality | |
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| Do you wish to adjust external student enrollment to track on target population? | Allows you to include external student in target population | |
| Table: Enter target percent change relative to background scenario. | ||
| Sensitivity - Change heating degree days | Adjust heating degree days to explore the effects on energy consumption in the municipality | |
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| Fix at last year of history | ||
| Decrease by 10% by 2040 relative to background scenario | ||
| Sensitivity - Increased or reduced trip demand (all trip types) | Adjust the trip demand for all trips types in the municipality. | |
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| Enter percent change of trip rates by 2051 | ||
| Sensitivity - 45 pct EVs by 2050 | Adjust stock of vehicles to be 45% EVs by 2050. | |