Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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I studied the influence of semi-transparent PV on a large commercial building using E+. This is the way I did it, you may find another way. I ran two simulations 1) with the semi-transparent properties of the PV as windows (e.g. to calculate the change in loads). In this simulation no electricity is ‘generated’ you are just calculated the impact of the new fenestration. 2) using PV in place of these windows to calculate what would have been generated (the loads will not be correct as the fenestration will not be accurate because I believe in E+ PV can only go over walls, not windows). Use the results from (1) to determine the utilities and then subtract off what would be generated as calculated in (2). I did it at a fine resolution as I was particularly interested in the influence on peaks.
