NREL / EnergyPlus

EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
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Add end-use subcategory fields to all remaining objects that consume electricity or a fuel #7673

Open JasonGlazer opened 4 years ago

JasonGlazer commented 4 years ago

Issue overview

The use of the end-use subcategories is used extensively to show the disaggregation of energy in building models. Currently the user can define end-use subcategories for internal and external load objects (Lights, ElectricEquipment, Exterior:Lights, etc.) and some zone equipment (ZoneBaseboard:OutdoorTemperatureControlled, Fans:OnOff) and central plant equipment (Pump:VariableSpeed, Boiler:HotWater, Chiller:Electric:EIR, CoolingTower:TwoSpeed, WaterHeater:Mixed, Refrigeration:Condenser:WaterCooled). Unfortunately, this excludes several other classes of objects that do consume (or generate) electricity or fuels such as coils (Coil:Cooling:DX:SingleSpeed, etc.) humidifiers, PV objects, generators. The first step should be to review which objects should have the end-use subcategory field.

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mjwitte commented 4 years ago

Closely related to https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/issues/4951

benbrannon-arup commented 2 weeks ago

Has there been any discussion of this feature request recently? It's a pretty fundamental feature in other software and would make E+ substantially more usable in certain projects where differentiating heating and cooling energy is critical (and avoid having to sub up coils, or other workarounds)