Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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VRF in CBECC-Com is coming very soon. The functionality was added some time ago (on an internal development branch), but there was a significant amount of review needed to ensure that the part-load curves provided appropriate savings estimates that did not over/under estimate compliance margins. The CEC recently approved the VRF module, and it is planned for an alpha release this spring (tentatively scheduled for April). The VRF module in CBECC-Com will use EnergyPlus's native VRF objects so no workarounds will be needed. Documentation on the modeling approach will be available along with the alpha release.
To address the second part of the question, the baseline is not dependent on the proposed system. The baseline will follow the NACM system map.
