Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Spaces inherent loads data from the Space Type definition. Once set load in space types, you cannot change them in the individual spaces interface.
On a practical level, adding individual lights to each space is incredibly time intensive. If you want exact room-by-room wattages, I would suggest removing lighting definitions from your spaces types and adding a single light object per room which sums the lighting power in that room, calculated from a spreadsheet. You can automate this by exporting the space name and total wattage to a .csv file, then using a custom OpenStudio measure to read the .csv, loop through your spaces, and add the light object with the given wattage.
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Spaces inherent inherit loads data from the Space Type definition. Once set load in space types, you cannot change them in the individual spaces interface.
On a practical level, adding individual lights to each space is incredibly time intensive. If you want exact room-by-room wattages, I would suggest removing lighting definitions from your spaces types and adding a single light object per room which sums the lighting power in that room, calculated from a spreadsheet. You can automate this by exporting the space name and total wattage to a .csv file, then using a custom OpenStudio measure to read the .csv, loop through your spaces, and add the light object with the given wattage.
