Does E+ consider interior shading when calculating the operative temperature?

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Many thanks for the detailed reply - I´m picking up on this now that I have a case to test and workaround it.

1. Great to know, so I will discard Operative Temperature provided by E+, and calculate it separately using the air temperature and surface temperatures from point 2.

2. Is there any output to pull out the "Effective inside surface temperature for window with interior blind or shade; combination of shade/blind and glass temperatures" Going through the list of outputs, there is nothing that resembles it.

3. Wouldn´t this mean that the shading is fixed, always deployed?

re 2. No. It would not be difficult to add if you want to build your own custom version.

re 3. Well, yes, but you could use EMS Surface Construction State to change the window construction as desired.

Ah, great thanks! I'll explore option 3 through the EMS Surface Constructtion State.

I finally got the EMS Surface Construction State working, really handy. However, it seems that none of the shading objects,

WindowMaterial:Shade:EquivalentLayer WindowMaterial:Drape:EquivalentLayer WindowMaterial:Blind:EquivalentLayer WindowMaterial:Screen:EquivalentLayer

has any field to specify thickness and material conductivity. How could I model something like a 5mm thick curtain, so that it adds to the thermal resistance of the whole window?

WindowMaterial:Gap:EquivalentLayer is the only part of the equivalent layer model with user inputs for thermal characteristics. The thermal performance of the other layers are calculated internally. So, you could add another layer of gap+glazing to represent the drape thermal resistance.