Spatial Community Energy Carbon and Cost Characterization Model

Model

References

http://www.toolkit.bc.ca/Resource/Evaluating-Residential-Energy-Emissions-and-Cost-Scenarios-Prince-George%E2%80%99s-Official-Community-Plan

Developer(s)
Brett Korteling

Description

The SCEC3 model enables evaluation of the energy, greenhouse gas and cost implications of specific actions related to energy use and supply in residential buildings. This model can encompass from building and parcel to community scale and report analysis of up to 32 years.

Users

municipalities

Key Inputs

property assessment-derived building attributes, customized HOT2000 runs for representative local housing archetypes, utility rates, utility projections, lidar data and retscreen analysis for solar potential, termium analysis for potential, parcel data integration aggregated to the neighbourhood and community-scale

Key Outputs

energy carbon and cost totals for baseline and four future scenarios at the neighbourhood and community-scale

Registered developers

NameOrganization
Jessica WebsterNatural Resources Canada