ComStock Tools for State Planners and Local Planners

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Is there any interest at NREL in using the ComStock datasets to make web-based tools for commercial load modeling by local planners? I think these tools could be particularly useful for municipal utilities that lack detailed consumption data.

Whom should we contact if CrossCompute wants to work on an open source web-based version of these tools? What questions are state and local planners asking that could be answered by these datasets?

Potential Benefits:

• Encourage development of user contributed tools based on the ComStock and ResStock datasets
• Increase usage of the datasets by policy analysts and energy planners
• Reduce customer support workload by making the tools easy to run
• Generate subscription based revenue that could be used to fund additional datasets and tools

NREL would retain intellectual property over the proposed toolkit.