Is the best solution or best approach available to performing campus wide building energy modeling through the use of the MLE+ toolbox? What are other approaches others have found to successfully model campus wide building energy?
We've successfully used MLE+ to co-simulate multiple E+ building models, a central plant, site photovoltaics, electric vehicles, and the distribution system for the NREL campus. Our campus model runs in non-realtime, as well as in real-time using OpalRT. We have packaged and documented this for our own internal use, but have not yet made it publicly available. If there's interest, I will prod the curator (Steve Frank) to do so.
Update - I've pinged Steve, and he's working to get this done. Here is an architecture diagram of the system:
and a screenshot of the Wiki that will be available when the content is posted:
Please add links to the tools so that people can easily investigate your suggestions
@ljbrackney is this tool publicly available or is that still being worked out?
So this took a while to get through all the required approvals, etc., but the Campus Energy Modeling platform is now publicly available under the LGPL. The repository is here:
https://github.com/NREL/CampusEnergyM...
The latest release (with the LPGL license included) is here:
https://github.com/NREL/CampusEnergyM...
The Github.com wiki documents the installation procedure, salient features, etc. See:
https://github.com/NREL/CampusEnergyM...
I'm happy to answer questions that you may have about the platform.
No, not really. Following this release, we pivoted our campus modeling work to develop a tool chain that did not require proprietary tools (i.e. MATLAB). The result is URBANopt. See: https://www.nrel.gov/buildings/urbano.... As a result of this pivot, we did not put further effort into developing or maintaining the Campus Energy Modeling Simulink library/toolchain.
Asked: 2014-12-05 12:05:47 -0600
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