Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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See the zone output reporting variables described here:
'Zone Windows Total Heat Gain Energy',
'Zone Windows Total Transmitted Solar Radiation Energy',
'Zone Windows Total Heat Loss Energy'
'Zone People Convective Heating Energy'
Be careful about how you use these variables for design decisions - solar gain contributes to cooling load in summer but reduces heating load in winter. Incoming solar radiation may not be fully realized in the zone as load until hours later due to massing effects, or may not contribute to the zone load air balance at all in the case of a chilled radiant slab. If you explain how you want to use these results, we may be better able to guide you on what variables you want.
