@inproceedings{34499,
  author = {Cynthia Regnier and Luis L Fernandes and Kaiyu Sun and John Bruschi},
  title = {ZNE for All! Enabling Zero Net Energy Retrofits for Small Commercial  Offices},
  abstract = {<p>The small commercial office market experiences a number of unique barriers to<br />achieving substantial energy reductions. Those barriers include: 1) a lack of awareness of and<br />access to centralized, comprehensive, cost-evaluative information about how to achieve energy<br />targets, and 2) affordable access to energy reduction services such as engineering and auditing<br />services. Energy efficiency tools and services currently involve higher costs on a per-square-foot<br />or kilowatt-hour (kWh)-saved basis. Small commercial buildings are consequently underserved<br />by the energy services market and disadvantaged in accessing the same detailed retrofit<br />information that larger buildings realize. Meeting national and state energy goals requires<br />whole-building integrated solutions that enable this sector to realize deep energy savings<br />successfully and affordably.<br />This project developed cost-effective retrofit packages of commercial, whole-building<br />integrated systems to achieve zero net energy (ZNE) performance for California multi-story<br />small commercial offices. The energy efficiency measure (EEM) packages target 50% energy<br />savings over existing energy use, with costs within 10% of conventional-performance<br />construction costs, and internal rates of return (IRR) of 5% or more. The developed packages of<br />EEMs are validated for energy performance, as well as visual and thermal comfort, under both<br />controlled laboratory test conditions for emerging technologies and demonstrated in an occupied<br />small commercial building. Validated EEMs were built into an online public software platform<br />that enables small commercial facilities to conduct whole-building retrofit assessments, relevant<br />to their building, providing cost-evaluative feedback on EEMs and packages of measures.</p>},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {ACEEE Summer Study},
  language = {eng},
}