Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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For the supply/central plant side, if you want to model the equipment (chillers, pumps, etc.), you could use a PlantLoop with a Chiller:Electric:EIR and a Pump:VariableSpeed attached. If you don't care about modeling the chillers and you just want to provide chilled water at a given temperature, try the DistrictCooling object.
For the demand/load side, you could model those buildings and put Coil:Cooling:Water objects on simple HVAC systems to provide the cooling and use zone multipliers and per area loads to make the models simple. If you already know the load shape and don't want to model the buildings explicitly, you could use a LoadProfile:Plant to simulate the building loads.
The Plant Application Guide.pdf that comes installed with EnergyPlus at C:\EnergyPlusV8-2-0\Documentation is also a very good resource for this type of modeling because it shows some of the more complex configurations that are possible.
