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