Consolidated and standardized electrical panel and building characteristics in U.S. single-family buildings for predictive modeling

This dataset includes building characteristics, panel capacity, and avaliable breaker space for single-family homes aggregated from field data collected by the TECH Clean California program, the Northwest Energy Efficiency Residential Building Stock Assessment, Home Energy Analytics, the Bay Area Renewable Energy Network, the Minnesota Center for Energy and Environment, the Berkeley Lab Citizen Science Survey, and the California Public Utilities Commission.
, We standardized categorical field values in our dataset to account for variation in naming conventions across our datasets (e.g.  ‘heat pump’ and ‘HP’). We also excluded outlier panel capacity values. We also screened out panel capacities that we suspected were data entry errors due their being unique to the dataset, non-integer, or not divisible by five. . We further excluded homes with panel capacities that were non-integer or not divisible by five as they did not agree with our understanding of electrical panel sizing. Additionally, we removed three homes less than 1,500 ft2 that had 10,000A panels, which we considered unrealistic. We also excluded homes with 100 or more reported available breaker spaces, which we did not find basis for in market-available electrical panels, , # Electrical panel and building characteristics

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4jw](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rv15dv4jw)

## Description of the data and file structure

This file contains data on building characteristics in single-family homes from multiple field data sources. The characteristics include: the year/decade of construction; primary fuels for space and water heating; cooking, and clothes drying; electrical panel capacity; available breaker spaces in the electrical panel; the presence of PV; the type and presence of cooling technologies; and the number of major electrical loads. 

### Files and variables

#### File: data_for_panel_modeling.csv

**Description:** 

##### Variables

* panel_amp_pre: Report capacity (in Amps) for existing panels in single-family homes
* panel_amp_pre_bin: Binned panel capacity
* panel_slots_empty: The number of available breaker spaces (panel slots) in existing panels
* geometry_building_type_recs: Building type, aligned with definiti..., ,