Releases: trynthink/scout
Releases · trynthink/scout
v0.9.1 (2023-12-18)
What's New
- Revise method for allocating end use electricity baselines in AEO from census divisions to EMM regions and states by using End Use Load Profiles data
- Add pyproject.toml file to enable one line installation of all packages required by Scout
- Add CPU and memory profiling to continuous integration testing on GitHub Actions
- Improve robustness of baseline data file preparation modules
- Minor fixes to measure data preparation and run modules and Read the Docs configuration
v0.9 (2023-10-10)
What's New
- Update to AEO 2023
- Update energy and stock and technology cost, performance, and lifetime data
- Update site-source energy conversions, CO2 emissions intensities, and energy prices
- Revise peak and take period definitions to be consistent with 2023 EMM projections
- Add new commercial miscellaneous electric load (MEL) categories and update numeric encoding of commercial MELs
- Update available AEO data and related infrastructure
- Add federal and state cost incentives that reduce the initial cost of upgrades
- For residential buildings, break out total installed costs for new versus existing buildings
- For commercial buildings, begin pulling in "unspecified" building type and MELs technology type energy use data
- Add
tech_switch_to
field to measures to ensure appropriate incentives are applied - Update measure definitions with
tech_switch_to
field
- Update to EIA API v2
- Update time series electricity costs and all emissions intensity data for moderate and high decarbonization scenarios to use 2022 Cambium scenarios and data
- Fix minor bugs in stock units handling and fugitive emissions calculations
v0.8.2 (2023-06-29)
What's New
- Update ECMs
- Reflect current standards and specifications, e.g., IECC and ASHRAE 90.1, ENERGY STAR
- Incorporate more recent reports on electrification costs
- Incorporate latest EIA reference case equipment cost and performance data
- Add ground-source heat pump ECMs at ENERGY STAR and Best Available performance levels
- Update supporting data
- Grid emissions, TSV carbon and cost files (based on NREL Cambium 2022)
- Consumer price index data
- Social cost of carbon
- Fix assorted bugs and improve robustness of plotting code, savings calculations, and results breakouts
v0.8.1 (2023-02-28)
What's New
- Update building envelope component cost, performance, and lifetime data
- Account for technology efficiency in service-demand-weighting of commercial building energy use
- Revise hourly price projections to approximate the effect of electricity prices being composed of fixed and hourly charges, and adjust them accordingly
- Adjust TSV savings shape calculations to account for slight differences in the baseline between the savings shape CSVs and the main baseline file
tsv_load.gz
- Fix assorted bugs with plotting code, savings calculations, retrofit rate, and other features
v0.8 (2022-08-31)
What's New
- Update to AEO 2022
- Remove DVD players and add over-the-top streaming devices
- Split out residential pool heaters and pool pumps
- Add new residential miscellaneous electric loads
- Update site-source energy conversions, CO2 emissions intensities, and energy prices to 2022 projections
- Revise peak and take period definitions to be consistent with 2022 EMM projections
v0.7.3 (2022-08-31)
What's New
- Update example measure set to be consistent with the latest Benchmark Scenarios
- Add fugitive emissions accounting
- Add accounting of CO2-equivalent emissions from fugitive sources, including equipment refrigerant leakage and natural gas supply chain methane leakage
- Add user options to assess emissions impacts from either one or both of these sources in the ecm_prep.py module
- Add user options to assess conventional refrigerants (including phase-out dates) as well as custom or low-GWP alternatives
- Switch results figure generation code from R to Python
- Revise commercial other energy handling to ingest all baseline commercial energy use data
- Add 'other' end use for all fuel types to all commercial building types
- Add unique commercial 'unspecified' building type used for electricity for water services and telecom systems, as well as other fossil fuel energy
- Update hourly baseline load shapes and flexibility measures
- Add distinct load/load savings shapes for all three residential building types
- Revise flexibility measure characteristics to respond to updated peak/take periods consistent with 2022 EMM projections
- Update hourly load data generated with ResStock v2.5.0 and DOE Commercial Prototypes run with OpenStudio v3.3.0
v0.7.2 (2022-05-31)
What's New
- Uncompeted, competed, captured stock reporting in results
- Detailed results breakout user options
- All regions (for states, EMM regions)
- Building type (instead of building class)
- Fuel type
- Update to 2021 Cambium scenarios; add support for 95% by 2050 and 95% by 2035 Cambium scenarios
- Incorporate T&D losses in EMM region and state emissions factors
- Introduce support for technology diffusion parameters in ECM definitions to limit an ECM's adoption to below its maximum adoption potential
- Updates to calculations
- Competed stock shares for heat pumps
- Envelope measure cost packaging
- Cost conversions
- Captured stock in the year of a measure's market exit
v0.7.1.1 (2022-02-14)
What's New
- Update documentation to reflect new features added in v0.7.1
- Update peak and take window documentation to system load shapes from 2020 AEO NEMS EMM data
- Move test peak and take periods to a dedicated test file
- Fix cost conversion calculations for measures that apply to all residential or commercial buildings
v0.7.1 (2022-01-31)
What's New
- Translate commercial baseline stock and stock cost data to service demand units (e.g., kBtu/h heating served, $/kBtu/h heating served)
- Reduce data processing and write-out requirements for sector-level savings shape generation
- Refine stock turnover calculations and handling of measures with later market entry years within measure competition routines
- Fix bugs in the handling of building types and fuel splits in plotting routine
- Add several new user options, including:
- Introduce reference case technologies to measure competition
- Select from four scenarios of exogenous fuel switching conversion rates to determine fuel switching measure market shares
- Select an alternate forecast for electricity carbon intensity consistent with 80% grid decarbonization by 2050
- Use an alternate baseline forecast of electricity carbon intensity
- Assume early retrofitting of equipment at technology-specific rates that can be increased by the user over time
- Generate data for separating equipment vs. envelope impacts in packaged measures
- Report more detailed breakouts of results by region and/or building type
v0.7 (2021-09-30)
What's New
- Update all baseline data to the EIA 2021 AEO
- Report onsite generation separately in results (in total and broken out by region/building type)
- Separate distillate and propane CO2 emissions intensities and prices as part of residential "other fuel" technology calculations