SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B: Piloting a Decarbonization-Ready Common Home Assessment

密歇根州底特律的数千户家庭需要数十亿美元的房屋维修费用，以解决紧迫的健康和安全风险以及高能源负担。没有一个单一的资金援助计划能够大规模地满足无数的需求。导航重复的家庭评估会让家庭感到困惑，让提供商组织感到沮丧，并错失了脱碳机会。能源系统的脱碳已迅速成为应对气候变化的中心目标。许多城市和州都设定了高碳减排目标，作为其气候政策和相应倡议的一部分。虽然底特律的房地产危机带来了紧迫感，但美国各地的许多城市都在努力满足这样一种愿望，即配置财政资源和协调服务，以支持住房稳定并加快实现净零目标。为了应对这些需求和机遇，一个由学术和社区研究人员和民间合作伙伴组成的团队已经走到一起，共同设计和试验一个脱碳准备模块，以便与密歇根州底特律正在出现的通用、全面的家庭评估方案相结合。这一资源将进行实地测试，并将完成对低收入家庭的研究队列的翻新。将与供应商、客户和利益相关者一起收集定性的社会科学数据，以补充定量的能源使用和空气质量数据。简化的数字家庭模型将用于模拟支持率结构、需求响应计划、网格交互家电计划和相关控制。这一努力的目的有三个方面。首先，该项目将支持和加快已经在进行的合作努力，以编织财政资源和协调旨在解决家庭危险、气候变化和能源效率的服务。其次，脱碳改造将被更全面地考虑，并在家庭维修过程的每个阶段。最后，通过利用技术和新的价值流，解决采用的经济障碍和降低脱碳的有效成本的机会。具体目标包括：经过实地测试的脱碳准备家庭评估模块；底特律更多地采用全面的家庭评估协议；通过资金流编织实现脱碳战略的案例研究；一份形成性评估报告，说明提供商和客户的感知和实际好处，以及将试点工作规模化的可行性；以及一份工程报告，描述技术差距、解决途径和使能效用计划。这个项目是对B轨道--公民创新挑战--弥合基本资源和服务以及社区需求之间的差距--的回应。公民创新挑战是与能源部、国土安全部和国家科学基金会的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Thousands of households in Detroit, MI need billions of dollars in home repairs to address urgent health and safety risks and high energy burdens. No single funding assistance program can address the myriad needs at scale. Navigating duplicative home assessments confuses households, frustrates provider organizations, and misses decarbonization opportunities. Decarbonization of energy systems has rapidly emerged as a central goal to address climate change. Many cities and states have set high carbon reduction goals as part of their climate policies and corresponding initiatives. While Detroit’s housing crisis created its sense of urgency, numerous cities around the country are grappling with the desire to braid financial resources and coordinate services to support housing stability and accelerate net-zero goals. In response to these needs and opportunities, a team of academic and community-based researchers and civic partners have come together to co-design and pilot a decarbonization-readiness module for integration with a common, comprehensive home assessment protocol emerging in Detroit, MI. This resource will be field-tested, and retrofits will be completed for a study cohort of low-income homes. Qualitative social science data will be collected with providers, clients, and stakeholders to complement quantitative energy use and air quality data. Simplified digital home models will be used to simulate supportive rate structures, demand response programs, grid-interactive appliance programs, and associated controls. The intent of this effort is three-fold. First, the project will support and accelerate collaborative efforts already underway to braid financial resources and coordinate services aimed at addressing home hazards, weatherization, and energy efficiency. Second, decarbonization retrofits will be considered more holistically and at every stage of the home repair journey. Finally, to address economic barriers to adoption and opportunities to reduce the effective cost of decarbonization by leveraging technology and new value streams. Specific objectives include: a field-tested decarbonization-readiness home assessment module; increased adoption of a comprehensive home assessment protocol in Detroit; a case study of decarbonization strategies enabled through braiding of funding streams; a formative evaluation report characterizing perceived and actual benefit to providers and clients and the feasibility of bringing a pilot effort to scale; and an engineering report describing technology gaps, solution pathways and enabling utility rate programs. This project is in response to Track B - CIVIC Innovation Challenge - Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs.The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security, and the National Science Foundation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.