Pool and Hot Tub schedules are NOT nullified for vacant units

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Pool and Hot Tub schedules are NOT nullified for vacant units #1047

Closed lixiliu closed 1 year ago

lixiliu commented 1 year ago

These are a few buildings from EUSS 1.0 AMY2018 run:

I check their run/schedules.csv, the following columns are not nullified for vacant units:

pool_pump
pool_heater
hot_tub_pump
hot_tub_heater

Why is that? schedules_bldg_360746_vacant_pool.csv schedules_bldg_513245_occupied_pool.csv

joseph-robertson commented 1 year ago

This is intentional. The idea is that these schedules, along with refrigerator/freezer schedules, are not affected by vacancy. See https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio-HPXML/blob/master/HPXMLtoOpenStudio/resources/schedules.rb#L1588-L1608.

shorowit commented 1 year ago

Looks like it was decided here: https://github.com/NREL/resstock/issues/562#issuecomment-806262789

lixiliu commented 1 year ago

Thanks good to know! Looks like the rationale is that these schedules aren't occupant-driven and are not easily modified by occupants when they vacay.

Good to close issue.

shorowit commented 1 year ago

Also note that there will be a simple CSV file where you can turn end uses on or off in terms of how they behave during vacancies and power outages. This will be available in the near future when https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio-HPXML/pull/1266 is merged and brought into ResStock.