Key CityInSight Views

Action Views
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
End use sectors
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.
2) geomap non residential floorspace density Choropleth maps of non-residential floorspace densities. Total (state) and accumulated new.
Single-scenario support only.
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
3) geomap mode shares Choropleth maps of mode share of trip ends. Internal trips only.
Single-scenario support only.
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.
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.