LBL-40394
UC-1600
Accuracy of Home Energy Rating Systems
Jeff Ross Stein
Building Energy Analysis Group, Bldg 90-2000
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, CA 94720
June 1997
This work was supported by the Assistant Secretary
for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy,
Office of Building Technology, State and Community Programs
of the U.S. Department
of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00098.
Acknowledgements
This report is written in the third person
because there were many people who contributed to it,
either by supplying data, or feedback,
or in a variety of other ways.
I am very grateful to these people. They include:
Ed Vine (LBNL)
Bruce Wilcox (Berkeley Solar Group)
Charles Segerstrom (PG&E)
Jeanne Byrne (Home Energy Magazine)
Ron Judkoff (NREL)
Lois Arena, Steve Andrews, and Jay Luboff (Energy Rated Homes of Colorado)
Brian Dreiling (Midwest Energy)
Ruth Kubinski and Sally Lukens (Home Energy Ratings of Ohio)
Cynthia Gardstein (HERS Council)
Doug Swartz (Ft. Collins Power & Light)
Brian Pon (LBNL)
Judy Roberson (LBNL)
Gene Rochlin (ERG)
Stephen Handorf (independent consultant)
Philip Fairey (Florida Solar Energy Center)
Phil Carlton (CHEERS)
Robert Clear (LBNL)
Vadim Belotserkovsky (Natural Resources Canada).
Richard Faesy (Energy Rated Homes of Vermont)
Michael Holt (Architectural Energy Corporation)
Barbara Farhar (NREL)
Rebecca Vories (Infinite Energy)
Robert Scott of CHEERS deserves special thanks
for supplying the data that serve as the core of this research.
As opposed to many HERS providers,
Robert was eager to supply data and to work with me.
Finally, I would particularly like to thank my primary advisor,
Alan Meier
of LBNL, for his extensive guidance, insight, and encouragement.
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Questions? E-mail Alan Meier.