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Daylighting potential and electric end use

asked 9 years ago

luis melo's avatar

updated 9 years ago

How can I compare the Light Electric power usage per hour before and after using daylight sensors? I suposed that Light Electric Power object is able to do this. Am I correct? I want to report something like below image. image description

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answered 9 years ago

Waseem's avatar

updated 9 years ago

You should be able to model this by using Daylighting:Controls object and setting required Illuminance setpoint values at reference point(s). Lighting energy consumption will also depend on the Lighting control type i.e. continuous, stepped or continuous/off. Also, make sure that you modify Fraction Replaceable field of Lights object.

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Hello Wassem, thank you for help, but, even taking into account all objects listed above, comparing the results between windows A and B with opaque surface and the same windows with semi transparent photovoltaics, the energy consumption in KWh remain with same values. It doesn't make sense because there is daylight reaching the space in second case. Do you know how can i fix it?

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(input output reference): *Fraction Replaceable. This field defines the daylighting control for the LIGHTS object. If Daylighting:Controls or Daylighting:DELight:C

luis melo's avatar luis melo  ( 9 years ago )

I'm trying to send by in-mail, ok?

luis melo's avatar luis melo  ( 9 years ago )

@luis melo: You can share a dropbox link here so that anyone (who wants to) can have a look.

Waseem's avatar Waseem  ( 9 years ago )

Some more detail about this model and the daylighting strategy would also be nice. You have two zones with daylighting controls, and refer to "windows A and B" being changed; what about the large glazed area in the second, larger space? Is that one also changing? Are the results for the building or by zone, or??

rpg777's avatar rpg777  ( 9 years ago )

The large glazed area is a glassdoor who is a unchanged surface. The main goal of the study is to analyse the STPV performance in terms of save energy with daylighting.

luis melo's avatar luis melo  ( 9 years ago )

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