ELCAP Database Walkthrough of Web Portal

Regional Technical Forum March 20, 2013

Assemble the digital and written elements of the End Use Load and Consumer

Assessment Program (ELCAP) data and convert them into a searchable database

Purpose of Project

Principal Investigators:

• Aaron Jenniges• Ryan Kilkenny• Niko Drake-McLaughlin• Matei Perussi The Cadmus Group, Inc.

Four Main Components

• Raw hourly site level meter and weather station data– 458 building sites, 41 weather sites– Data range April 1, 1987 to August 31, 1989

• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) data, containing site characteristics

• Summary files containing aggregated tables based on summarized hourly load data

• Reports on analysis conducted on ELCAP load data

Number of Sites by Category

CategoryNumber of

SitesCommercial1 63

Commercial Audit Program 16

Multifamily2 5

Purchase of Energy Savings3 0

Residential4 256

Residential Standards Demonstration Program 83

1 There were 81 commercial sites in the raw data; 18 sites could not be linked to characteristics data and were excluded from the searchable database.1 There were 17 multifamily sites in the raw data; 12 sites could not be linked to characteristics data and were excluded from the searchable database.1 There were 4 PES sites in the raw data; 4 sites could not be linked to characteristics data and were excluded from the searchable database.1 There were 257 residential sites in the raw data; 1 site could not be linked to characteristics data and were excluded from the searchable database.

Products

• Report on File Contents– Describes what found in raw data files– Identifies data files excluded– Describes Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word document

reports are included– Lays out database schema– Appendices A-M: Excel workbook of

• File descriptions, abbreviations, translations• Data field comparisons• Matrix of site numbers

• Modern Accessible Database!

ELCAP Data Assembly and Conversion Project: Report

on File Contents

December 14, 2012

Available for All the World

http://rtf.nwcouncil.org/ELCAP/