NREL / resstock

Highly granular modeling of residential building stocks at national, regional, and local scales using OpenStudio/EnergyPlus.
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Update Temperature Capacitance Multiplier to 7.0 #1223

Closed afontani closed 1 month ago

afontani commented 3 months ago

Pull Request Description

Closes: #1161

After discussion and recent investigations into better understanding the resilience impacts of the ResStock timeseries results for power outages and load-shifting events, there is some evidence that the amount of thermal mass in ResStock is under-predicted. A quick (although non-physical fix) is to increase the temperature capacitance multiplier. A recommended number of 7.0 has been suggested by @jmaguire1. There are multiple efforts currently trying to leverage ResStock in these applications. While work is being done to better figure out a better solution, a quick fix is implemented to get the results in the acceptable range.

See related discussion in the attached issue for more details.

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afontani commented 3 months ago

A couple screenshots from the datapoint comparisons... Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 10 59 35 AM Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 11 00 32 AM Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 11 02 27 AM Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 11 02 52 AM Screenshot 2024-03-29 at 11 03 32 AM

joseph-robertson commented 1 month ago

Superseded by https://github.com/NREL/resstock/pull/1247.