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Modeling of residential buildings in EnergyPlus using OpenStudio/HPXML.
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Support multi-year EnergyPlus simulations #1118

Open shorowit opened 2 years ago

shorowit commented 2 years ago

This would be useful when calibrating against utility bill data -- either because it spans more than 12 months or because it crosses a year (e.g., 10/1 - 3/31). In the meantime, multiple OS-HPXML simulations can be performed to handle this use case.

EnergyPlus supports multi-year simulations, though there are some limitations.

shorowit commented 2 years ago

This would require, e.g., changing SimulationControl/CalendarYear to BeginYear and EndYear.

Maybe we should finally bite the bullet and rename results_annual.csv to results_runperiod.csv? (Or only rename when the run period is not a year? That would maintain backwards compatibility, but would probably be confusing for new users.)