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You should be able to locate files "eplusout.rdd" and "eplusout.mdd" somewhere in the run folder for your IDF file.
In "eplusput.rdd", you will find output variables, the following being just one of hundreds of examples:
Output:Variable,*,Pump Electricity Rate,hourly; !- HVAC Average [W]
This generates outputs for each Pump in the model. Note that you could also replace the asterisk * with the name of a specific plant loop pump name - say you have a chilled water plant loop "CHW" and in it a chilled water pump "CHWP-1", then you could do the following.
Output:Variable,CHWP-1,Pump Electricity Rate,hourly; !- HVAC Average [W]
In "eplusout.mdd", you will find output meters, the following being just one of hundreds of examples:
Output:Meter,Electricity:Facility,hourly; !- [J]
Note that output meters are just a collection of output variables, as detailed in the "eplusout.mtd" file.
All you have to to do is pick one or several entries from "eplusout.rdd" and/or "eplusout mdd" and copy and past these lines to the end of the "in.idf" file, or whatever your main IDF file is called. Once you rerun the model in EnergyPlus, you can open the resulting "eplusout.sql" file in DView and pick what you want to look at.
