trynthink / scout

A tool for estimating the future energy use, carbon emissions, and capital and operating cost impacts of energy efficiency and demand flexibility technologies in the U.S. residential and commercial building sectors.
https://scout.energy.gov
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Handle dual fuel measures #407

Open jtlangevin opened 2 months ago

jtlangevin commented 2 months ago

Consumers may switch to a heat pump but keep original fuel as backup; the effects of partial remaining fossil fuel use on energy/emissions/costs should be accounted for in the Scout measure preparation module, ecm_prep.

Proposed approach:

jtlangevin commented 3 weeks ago

Initially added in commit 68b7de69db1f1175309f57b0311c8c682dfb5c82, with associated measure updates in commit 0723550ad4600fba5e4e2ecddffe1dd2d087a575; needs unit testing.