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Modeling of residential buildings in EnergyPlus using OpenStudio/HPXML.
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Issues with number_of_residents=0 #1079

Closed joseph-robertson closed 1 year ago

joseph-robertson commented 2 years ago

Currently, there are errors for the following situations when hpxml.building_occupancy.number_of_residents=0:

lixiliu commented 1 year ago

Per ResStock-estimation Issue 311 linked above, Vacant units currently are associated with a number of household attributes, including income, tenure, and occupants. The consensus is to remove these attributes for vacant units going forward to avoid confusion. I have a fix here and would like to try and get it worked in before more RECS 2020 updates. Many of the tsvs from RECS 2020 will have some dependencies on income, FPL, and occupants so we need to be able to account for the corresponding "0", "Not Available" fields for vacant units.

The supporting piece on the ResStock side is an ability to set Occupants=0 for Vacant units, so we need to elevate this issue and revive Joe's tentative solution for it. @shorowit @joseph-robertson