Henry Horsey
Senior Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolHenry Horsey is a Senior Research Engineer with 11 years of experience at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, specializing in large-scale, physics-based commercial building energy modeling and analytics. He leads development of ComStock, an analytic workflow used to model load-shape impacts and demand-side technologies across geographies and into mid-term futures, and has applied those capabilities for partners like LADWP, DOE, and GE Global Research. Henry blends computational methods, data engineering, and maximal-entropy feature design with domain expertise in building physics to translate complex simulations into actionable insights for policy and technical stakeholders. He has extended OpenStudio/OpenStudio-based tools for nationwide commercial building stock analysis and automated multi-stage modeling and optimization pipelines. His work uniquely bridges hands-on software integration, academic mentorship, and operational research—evident in projects optimizing forward operating bases to minimize diesel resupply and integrating automated fault detection for SMEs. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he is completing a PhD in Systems Engineering, underscoring his commitment to rigorous, system-level approaches to grid-flexibility and dynamic demand challenges.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Systems Engineering at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Engineering with Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Engineering with Applied Mathematics at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringNew Vista High School
Github Skills (22)
radiance10
energy10
hpc-applications9
renewable-energy9
modeling9
climate-change9
energyplus9
spin7
large-scale7
scale7
parametric7
cli6
amazon6
docker6
cross-platform6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
henryHorsey/openstudio
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
cookbookchef-resourcemanaged-by-terraformchefopenstudio
NREL/dencity-scripts
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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