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I don't know how you got in this state, but if you look at the EnergyPlus v8.9 inputs for the ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList object, you'll see that there is a field "Load Distribution Scheme" that is missing from your object. So all of your field inputs are off by 1 and making EnergyPlus confused. (Specifically, EnergyPlus is reading "Zone HVAC Baseboard Radiant Convective Electric" as the object type instead of "ZoneHVAC:Baseboard:RadiantConvective:Electric".

Try this instead:

ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList,
    Thermal Zone: Bad Equipment List,  !- Name
    SequentialLoad,  !- Load Distribution Scheme
    ZoneHVAC:Baseboard:RadiantConvective:Electric,  !- Zone Equipment 1 Object Type
    Zone HVAC Baseboard Radiant Convective Electric,  !- Zone Equipment 1 Name
    1,                       !- Zone Equipment 1 Cooling Sequence
    1;                       !- Zone Equipment 1 Heating or No-Load Sequence

Try this instead:

ZoneHVAC:EquipmentList,
    Thermal Zone: Bad Equipment List,  !- Name
    SequentialLoad,  !- Load Distribution Scheme
    ZoneHVAC:Baseboard:RadiantConvective:Electric,  !- Zone Equipment 1 Object Type
    Zone HVAC Baseboard Radiant Convective Electric,  !- Zone Equipment 1 Name
    1,                       !- Zone Equipment 1 Cooling Sequence
    1;                       !- Zone Equipment 1 Heating or No-Load Sequence

Is it possible that you got an EnergyPlus IDF file from a previous version of EnergyPlus, before this field was added, and simply changed the version number? As inputs to objects may change between releases, you should really use the IDFVersionUpdater to upgrade your IDF files to newer versions.