Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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There are existing urban-scale tools like MIT's UMI and NREL's UrbanOpt, which leverage EnergyPlus to carry out what you're after. As to your 2nd question, you should be able to track the output of as many PV objects as your can add in your model (depends on the object) - just add the required output variable in your IDF.
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There are existing urban-scale tools like MIT's UMI and NREL's UrbanOpt, which leverage EnergyPlus to carry out what you're after. As to your 2nd question, you should be able to track the output of as many PV objects as your can add in your model (depends on the object) - just add the required output variable in your IDF.IDF. EDIT: PV modelling is topic in itself, you'll find some great UMH posts here by searching "PV".
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There are existing urban-scale tools like MIT's UMI and NREL's UrbanOpt, which leverage EnergyPlus to carry out what you're after. As to your 2nd question, you should be able to track the output of as many PV objects as your can add in your model (depends on the object) - just add the required output variable in your IDF. EDIT: PV modelling is topic in itself, itself, you'll find some great UMH posts here by searching "PV".
| | 4 | No.4 Revision |
There are existing urban-scale tools like MIT's UMI and NREL's UrbanOpt, which leverage EnergyPlus to carry out what you're after. As to your 2nd question, you should be able to track the output of as many PV objects as your can add in your model (depends on the object) - just add the required output variable in your IDF. EDIT: PV modelling is topic in itself, you'll find some great UMH posts here by searching "PV".
| | 5 | No.5 Revision |
There are existing urban-scale tools like MIT's UMI and NREL's UrbanOpt, which leverage EnergyPlus to carry out what you're after. As to your 2nd question, you should be able to track the output of as many PV objects as your can add in your model (depends on the object) - just add the required output variable in your IDF. EDIT: PV modelling is a topic in itself, you'll find some great UMH posts here by searching "PV".
