The purpose of the Energy Simulations and Projected Statewide Energy Savings project is to develop reasonable energy-performance and cost models for high-performance relocatable classrooms (RCs) across California climates. This project is broken into an initial and a final phase. In the initial phase, which took place during the past year, the characteristics of high- performance RCs were defined, modeling assumptions were developed, and a DOE-2 input dataset was developed and executed. A final modeling phase will occur in Year 3 after the energy and indoor air quality (IAQ) field studies are completed. The data from the field studies will be used to adjust model inputs and assumptions so that the DOE-2 simulations can be refined. The refined simulations will be used to provide improved statewide energy savings and predicted energy usage for both standard and improved RCs.

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