This research develops data and analyses to identify cost-effective beneficial electrification measures. The project objective is to identify, propose, and/or support building code amendments for the beneficial electrification of existing residential, multi-family, and commercial buildings, as well as new construction.

The project provides three state-specific knowledge products: a synthetic building baseline, a library of energy models, and costing for electrification and energy efficiency measures. Various national, sub-national, and state databases are used to construct the building baseline. This data tunes prototype energy models from The Department of Energy (DOE) to reflect New Jersey’s energy consumption characteristics. An all-fuels comparison is combined with a simple payback analysis to determine cost-effectiveness.

Further, the New Jersey Energy Code Collaborative (NJECC) to establish a timely and robust, stakeholder-guided process to research and develop a New Jersey Zero Energy Building Roadmap that provides options to build government and market capacities to effectively advance an increasingly more energy-efficient building energy code and improve administration, enforcement and compliance, aligned with relevant clean energy policies of the State, including the Energy Master Plan goals and recommendations.