Regarding NREL Building template using for Energyplus
Greetings. This is Preetha Malini, Research Scholar, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Laboratory, Anna University, Chennai I have been working on my research project - Solar Air Conditioning for Office Buildings **I tried to use Medium Office Template from NREL for Chennai (India Location). But the electricity required for cooling is not got properly even though I gave the Chennai Weather File. Let me know pls whether I should edit the IDF File also... Also pls elaborate all the changes that should be made or support me with any source that could cater to my need.
@Preetha Malini R and AC Researcher by "NREL Medium Office Template", do you mean the commercial prototype buildings managed by PNNL? Or a building template in the OpenStudio Application?
You may not see electricity use for cooling if the IDF includes ideal loads air system objects instead of detailed HVAC objects. Heating and cooling would both be in a district resource instead of electricity, gas, etc.
Also, can you upload your model to Google Drive, Dropbox, etc. and then share a URL for others to download? That would help others provide better solutions.