Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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There are two things involved in modeling a heat pump water heater in OpenStudio. There is the heat pump unit itself (WaterHeaterHeatPump) and the tank (WaterHeaterMixed). The heat pump unit is treated as zone equipment in OpenStudio and therefore the first step is adding the heat pump to the zone. The heat pump unit references the tank, and in OpenStudio when you drag and drop a heat pump from the OpenStudio library, the tank will come along automatically. The final step is to add the tank to a plant. Here are screenshots of the steps involved.
