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The City Energy Analyst (CEA)
https://www.cityenergyanalyst.com/
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Feature: CEA results reader (metrics) #3483

Closed ShiZhongming closed 6 months ago

ShiZhongming commented 7 months ago

This feature request concerns the processing of the CEA results.

CEA outputs are rather rudimentary. For example, CEA outputs energy demand of each building, plus PV electricity generations of each building envelope.

However, in many of the use cases, the users want such urban building energy performance metric as solar energy penetration (i.e. PV yield divided by demand). Currently, it is expected that users come up with their own script calculating such metrics.

It could be useful to have a CEA Feature that directly output a .csv file containing these metrics, especially for a CEA Project containing hundreds of scenarios.