Building Decarbonization Tools and Methods

Effective planning requires practical knowledge about the data and methods available to affect change and accelerate building decarbonization. This presentation offers planners multidisciplinary expertise about accessing and using information concerning existing building stock, building codes, and utility ratemaking. Gain skills to be more active in energy planning, building codes, building data, and rate making.

Learn how to use information to minimize negative environmental impacts, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and guide more equitable and inclusive decision making related to building decarbonization. Presenters discuss tools to analyze existing building stock data, such as ResStock and ComStock. Together with analysis and modeling, these tools inform energy program decision making during a time of rapid transition in the energy sector.

Building codes are the baseline tool for protecting public health, safety, and welfare and this presentation helps planners understand the process of code development. Participants better understand the role that rate making plays in distributing public investment and how they can become stakeholders in the process.

NPC Peer Reviewers assigned this presentation a learning level of Advanced. For more on learning-level descriptions, visit our General Information Page.