August 12, 2014

MEMORANDUM FOR: JOHN CONTI

ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR ENERGY 

ANALYSIS

 PAUL HOLTBERG 

TEAM LEADER

ANALYSIS INTEGRATION TEAM

JAMES TURNURE

DIRECTOR

OFFICE OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND EFFICIENCY 

ANALYSIS

FROM: BUILDINGS CONSUMPTION & EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS 

TEAM

SUBJECT: First AEO2015 Buildings Sector Working Group Meeting 

Summary, presented on 08-07-2014

Attendees: John Agan (DOE EPSA)

Jack Mayernik (DOE EERE)

David Daniels (EIA OEA)

Cara Marcy (EIA OEA)

Sam Napolitano (EIA OEA)

Alan Swenson (EIA OES)

Carol White (FERC)

Attending by WebEx/Phone: John Ackerly (Alliance for Green Heat)

Roderick Jackson (ORNL)

Xiaojing Sun (Georgia Tech)

Matt Cox (Georgia Tech)

Frances Wood (OnLocation)

Kenneth Dubin (OnLocation)

Robert Lorand (Leidos)

David Belzer (PNNL)

Katie Cort (PNNL)

Andrew Nicholls (PNNL)

Saleh Zakerinia (UC Davis)

Buildings Team Attendees: Erin Boedecker

Owen Comstock

Behjat Hojjati

Kevin Jarzomski

David Peterson
2

Steve Wade

WORKING GROUP PRESENTATION FOR DISCUSSION PURPOSES ONLY

DO NOT QUOTE OR CITE AS RESULTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

The buildings presentation provided a discussion of the updates underway and anticipated for 

AEO2015. Updates to federal standards, end-use technology characterizations, and historical 

estimates were discussed, followed by a discussion of comments or suggestions for AEO2016

and beyond. An overview of these topics is included in the presentation materials provided as a

separate attachment.

Specific discussion/questions:

1. Discussion of the end-use technology update prompted a question about whether the 

new Leidos/Navigant report includes any indication of hours of use. The report 

covers equipment that serves major end uses. Typical unit capacity is provided in 

addition to cost and performance parameters and in some cases shipment quantities, 

but the report does not contain specific hours of use information.

2. As part of the discussion, EIA asked participants if they were aware of any recent 

research or analysis on approaches to incorporating water heating interactions for 

residential clothes washers and dishwashers. Some washers include elements to heat 

water internally while others draw hot water exclusively from the home water heater. 

EIA would like to better represent the impacts of these differences in energy use 

projections. Oak Ridge is currently working on an analysis addressing this topic 

which will be shared with EIA when publicly available. 

3. Another topic of discussion was the availability of comprehensive information 

looking at energy impacts and costs of energy efficiency programs. A few

participants mentioned work currently available or in progress on program specifics, 

impacts, and/or evaluation that may be useful to EIA. EIA analysts will follow up 

with participants to obtain these references.

Complete Listing of Invitees:

Ackerly, John (Alliance for Green Heat)

Agan, John (DOE EPSA)

Alex, Aileen (DOE)

Alschuler, Elena (DOE EERE)

Amann, Jennifer (ACEEE)

Ames, Mark (ASHRAE)

Anderson, David (PNNL)

Antypas, Yanna (EIA OEA)

Azevedo, Ines (Carnegie Mellon)

Baca, Justin (SEIA)

Bahei-Eldin, Ahmed GE)

Barbour, Edward (Navigant)

Barker, Breton (DOE EERE)

Bell, Mathias (Rocky Mountain Institute)
3

Belzer, Dave (PNNL)

Bergman, Aaron (DOE EPSA)

Berry, James (EIA OES)

Boyd, Erin (DOE IA)

Bredehoeft, Gwendolyn (EIA OEA)

Brodrick, James (DOE EERE)

Brown, Austin (NREL)

Brown, Marilyn (Georgia Tech)

Burns, Stephanie (IMT)

Carroll, Ryan (Alliance for Green Heat)

Chase, Alex (Energy Solutions)

Cogan, Jonathan (EIA OC)

Conti, John (EIA OEA)

Cureg, Edgardo (EIA OES)

Cymbalsky, John H (DOE EERE)

Daniels, David (EIA OEA)

deLaski, Andrew (Appliance Standards Awareness Project)

Dion, Jerry (DOE EERE)

Dirks, James A (PNNL)

Doliner, JD (Alliance for Green Heat)

Drury, Easan (NREL)

Dubin, Kenneth (On Location)

Feldman, Dave (NREL)

Fireovid, James (SAIC)

Friedrichs, Mark (DOE EERE)

Frisch, Carla (DOE EPSA)

Garg, Rishi (Office of the People’s Counsel-DC)

Giffin, Thomas (Leidos)

Gruenspecht, Howard (EIA)

Gumerman, Etan (Duke University)

Harris, Jeff (ASE)

Harvey, Stephen (EIA OES)

Henry, Dave (DOC)

Hodson, Elke (DOE)

Holtberg, Paul (EIA OEA)

Hunter, David (EPRI)

Jackson, Roderick (ORNL)

Kelso, Jordan (D&R International)

Krall, Eric (EIA OEA)

Kwatra, Sameer (ACEEE)

Laitner, Skip (Economic and Human Dimensions Research Associates)

Larsen, John (Rhodium Group)

Leifman, Michael (GE)

Lewis, Katie (EIA OES)

Livingston, Olga V (PNNL)

Lorand, Robert (SAIC)
4

Lu, Ruey-Pyng (EIA OES)

Majersik, Cliff (IMT)

Marcy, Cara (EIA OEA)

Margolis, Robert (NREL)

Marnay, Chris (LBNL)

Marvin, Katie (EVA Inc.)

Mayclin, Danielle (EIA OES)

Mayernik, John (DOE EERE)

Mayes, Fred (EIA OEA)

McDonald, Sean (PNNL)

McMillan, Colin (NREL)

McNary, William (EIA OES)

Meyer, John(Leidos)

Michaels, Joelle (EIA OES)

Mignone, Bryan (DOE EPSA)

Namovicz, Christopher (EIA OEA)

Narayanan, Raj (GE)

Neff, Shirley (EIA)

Neubauer, Max (ACEEE)

Nicholls, Andrew (PNNL)

Niebling, Charles (Alliance for Green Heat)

Nordman, Bruce (LBNL)

O'Brien, Eileen (EIA OES)

Olsen, Jay (EIA OES)

Palmer, Karen (RFF)

Pearson, Gina (EIA)

Ramea, Kalai (UC Davis)

Rosenquist, Gregory J. (LBNL)

Schuur, Arah (DOE EERE)

Steinberg, Daniel (NREL)

Stellberg, Sarah (IMT)

Stokes, Kem (DOC)

Stravinsky, Ben (EVA, Inc.)

Sun, Xiaojing (Georgia Tech)

Swenson, Alan (EIA OES)

Taylor, Cody (DOE EERE)

Ulrey, Peri (NGSA)

Wang, Joy (Georgia Tech)

Wang, Yu (Georgia Tech)

White, Carol (FERC)

Wiser, Ryan (LBNL)

Wood, Frances (OnLocation)

Yeh, Sonia (UC Davis)

Zakerinia, Saleh (UC Davis)