Ben Larson
What, When, and How Much | Whole-house Energy Use Across the Pacific Northwest
Ecotope - A newly completed study, the Residential Baseline Stock Assessment Metering Project, uncovers what devices are using energy, when energy is being used and how - providing builders, homeowners and designers with effective tools for optimizing energy use in the home.
Houses are more than structures, they are systems we create that use energy. The more informed we are about how houses use energy, the better we can fine tune that system to be efficient and optimal. The recently completed Residential Baseline Stock Assessment Metering (RBSAM) project looked beyond what we already know about total energy use, from the utility meter, to a detailed device-level study.
This information-packed study shows us the energy use for a typical house, focusing on what uses energy, across major categories of end uses, and also on the individual device level including TVs, lights, cable boxes, computers, appliances, space conditioning and water heating. And when, over the course of a day, week, and year devices use energy.
Ben Larson is a Senior Analyst and Project Manager at Ecotope. He has a multifaceted background in physics, experimental design, quantitative analysis, numerical modeling, climate change, alternative energy, and energy efficiency. Ben is committed to researching and developing significant and reliable conservation measures to be used in the Pacific Northwest’s energy efficiency power plant. He is particularly interested in building design and construction, and in the energy efficiency methods applied to those industries. Towards that end, at Ecotope, he develops and maintains the SEEM energy simulation program, which is used to model energy efficiency improvements in the residential sector.
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