Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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There is a bug in the EnergyPlus (v8.8) foundation heat transfer model, which for some reason is only showing up in your boiler runs. At some point in the near future, we hope to release a new version of BEopt that uses the latest EnergyPlus release (where the bug is fixed).
In the meantime, you can workaround the bug by opening BEopt's file "C:\Program Files (x86)\NREL\BEopt_2.8.0\Modeling\sim.py" and modifying the line self.use_kiva = True to instead say self.use_kiva = False. Then rerun your file. This will revert to our older foundation heat transfer algorithm that does not hit this bug.
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There is a bug in the EnergyPlus (v8.8) foundation heat transfer model, which for some reason is only showing up triggered in your boiler runs. At some point in the near future, we hope to release a new version of BEopt that uses the latest EnergyPlus release (where the bug is fixed).
In the meantime, you can workaround the bug by opening BEopt's file "C:\Program Files (x86)\NREL\BEopt_2.8.0\Modeling\sim.py" and modifying the line self.use_kiva = True to instead say self.use_kiva = False. Then rerun your file. This will revert to our older foundation heat transfer algorithm that does not hit this bug.
