Add SET degree-hour counts over entire year to QOI

[lixiliu]

SET (Standard Effective Temperature) can be used as a proxy for thermal resilience and comfort.

My understanding is there are existing QOIs on SET that measures the number of degree-hours above SET 84 degF within 1-3 days of a power outage and it is only available for power outage simulations.

Can we add QOI to record:

• number of degree-hours above SET 86 degF over entire year
• number of degree-hours below SET 54 degF over entire year
• Make QOI available for normal ResStock runs
• Better if we can modify the temperature thresholds as well.

Currently we have unmet hours of heating and cooling as part of the standard ResStock output, but they are relative to set points and speak more to the performance and sizing of the HVAC systems.

The requested QOI will be helpful to understand how indoor thermal comfort is impacted by upgrade measures.

[whiphi92]

I'd like to be a reviewer on this.

[shorowit]

Related to https://github.com/NREL/openstudio-common-measures-gem/pull/130?

[lixiliu]

@shorowit - appears to be so, looks like the closed PR has measures for other types of thermal comfort metrics, which are of interest. Are those metrics ready to use in ResStock?

[shorowit]

That's a question for @joseph-robertson.

[joseph-robertson]

@lixi The short answer is, yes, you can use the AddThermalComfortModelTypes measure in ResStock. Here is an example for how to include it in your yml file: https://github.com/NREL/resstock/blob/8566b48b23650f863e0e9ccd7a80288e772159eb/project_national/national_baseline.yml#L34-L55

Note that I've manually copied the entire AddThermalComfortModelTypes measure folder to the resstock repo's top level measures folder. (I have an outstanding question of whether the measure should be formally stored here.)