Home Energy Analysis Tool (HEAT) Project Interest Form
Residential heating accounts for over 15% of greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts. Transitioning from fossil-fuel heating systems to heat pumps is a key step in the state's overall decarbonization strategy, but appropriately "sizing" heat pumps is critical to realizing their full decarbonization benefit. The HeatSmart Alliance has developed a Heat Load Analysis tool that's extremely useful in sizing heat pumps for homes. The tool is available for free download from our website via the link above. It's currently available as a very sophisticated Excel template, but there are multiple reasons why it would benefit from being an online tool:
  • Connecting with an HDD database at degreedays.net. Currently, HDD data are saved in the Excel itself for only 6 weather stations to avoid data source connection complexities in Excel. A live link to the HDD data will extend applicability of this tool to anywhere in the U.S.
  • Users have to manually iterate on an input to find a minimum in a curve -- this sort of optimization is difficult if not infeasible in Excel but easy with code
  • The tool becomes increasingly valuable if there's a growing database of results from other homes. Currently the Excel includes results from about 70  homes and those have to be manually added. If implemented online, each use of the tool could build the database.
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