This is a synthetic building operation dataset which includes HVAC, lighting, miscellaneous electric loads (MELs) system operating conditions, occupant counts, environmental parameters, end-use and whole-building energy consumptions at 10-minute intervals. The data is created with 1395 annual simulations using the U.S. DOE detailed medium-sized reference office building, and 30 years' historical weather data in three typical climates including Miami, San Francisco, and Chicago. Three energy efficiency levels of the building and systems are considered. Assumptions regarding occupant movements, occupants' diverse temperature preferences, lighting, and MELs are adopted to reflect realistic building operations. A semantic building metadata schema - BRICK, is used to store the building metadata. The dataset is saved in a 1.2 TB of compressed HDF5 file. This dataset can be used in various applications, including building energy and load shape benchmarking, energy model calibration, evaluation of occupant and weather variability and their influences on building performance, algorithm development and testing for thermal and energy load prediction, model predictive control, policy development for reinforcement learning based building controls.
OwnerNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - view all
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Last updatedabout 1 year ago
OverviewAlphaBuildingHVACMELSyntheticbuildingefficiencyenergyenergy consumptionenvironmentallightingmiscellaneous electric loadsoccupancysimulationsynthetic data
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dcat_issued2020-12-21T07:00:00Z
dcat_modified2022-11-23T01:26:02Z
dcat_publisher_nameLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
guidhttps://data.openei.org/submissions/2977
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