Welcome to Scout
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Scout is a software program that estimates the impacts of various energy conservation measures (ECMs) in the U.S. residential and commercial building sectors. To learn more about what Scout can do, check out :ref:`overview`.

If you're eager to run a full Scout analysis, the :ref:`quick-start-guide` is the best place to begin.

For guidance on using the `Scout web interface`_, check out the :ref:`tutorials_web`.

Scout is a project of the U.S. Department of Energy `Building Technologies Office (BTO)`_ and is freely available for public use.

.. _Building Technologies Office (BTO): http://energy.gov/eere/buildings/building-technologies-office

Documentation Contents
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.. Table of Contents - mandatory component in Sphinx documentation
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   overview
   quick_start_guide
   installation_guide
   tutorials_web
   tutorials
   analysis_approach
   thermal_load_components
   ecm_reference
   eia_update
..   maintenance


.. Indices and Tables
.. ------------------

.. * :ref:`genindex`
.. * :ref:`modindex`
.. * :ref:`search`

.. _Scout web interface: https://scout.energy.gov/