Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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You certainly will learn more about what is going on in your building model by looking at these variables. Unfortunately, the zone component loads are not an easy result to extract from EnergyPlus because of the the way that the heat balance approach lumps things together. For the peak loads in the year, you can take a look at the Zone Component Loads Summary table that can be produced when requested in the Output:Table:SummaryReports object by asking for the ZoneComponentLoadSummary report. This takes a little longer than a regular simulation since it simulates the sizing periods twice. You might want to read the section in the Engineering Reference to understand the way it is derived. It would be very difficult to follow the same approach for an entire year of a simulation.
