NREL / OCHRE

A Python-based building energy modeling (BEM) tool designed to model flexible loads in residential buildings
https://www.nrel.gov/grid/ochre.html
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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More strip heat control options #90

Open jmaguire1 opened 7 months ago

jmaguire1 commented 7 months ago

Right now we use a pretty basic control of the strip heat based on a cut in temperature. I'd like to add some additional options:

This ties into #14 pretty directly. We'll still want to update the performance map and cold climate capacity retention, but backup strip heat control has a huge impact on cold climate performance as well.

apoerschke commented 7 months ago

Here is guidance from ecobee on how their thermostat handles temperature offset and runtime strip heat operation. https://support.ecobee.com/s/articles/Threshold-settings-for-ecobee-thermostats

apoerschke commented 7 months ago

I was seeing abnormal behavior during low temps / HP lockout where the ER setpoint was immediatly met. image

I've added logic to recognize when the HP is locked out and to have the ER follow the standard setpoint / deadbands. HVAC-Energy-Temp_Mattamy_Appalachian_HPLO-25 Will add this to the branch.

jmaguire1 commented 7 months ago

Awesome, thanks Andrew! Really excited to have you engaged and contributing here!