Tracking HPWH Performance

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The documentation appears to be incorrect; the output variables are "Cooling Coil Foo", not "Heating Coil Foo". We've been using "Cooling Coil Water Heating Electricity Energy" in our modeling workflow to successfully get the energy use.

Interestingly, note that the description of the Coil:WaterHeating objects all say:

From the air-side heat transfer perspective, the water-heater receives heating energy from air. Thus it is considered as a cooling coil, and the output variable names are using “Cooling Coil”.

But then the output variables in the documentation don't reflect that statement.

So it looks like the output variables for Coil:WaterHeating:AirToWaterHeatPump:VariableSpeed are correctly labeled as "Cooling Coil" while Coil:WaterHeating:AirToWaterHeatPump:Pumped and Coil:WaterHeating:AirToWaterHeatPump:Wrapped are incorrectly labeled in the documentation.

I have the same question. From this section of the Input/Output reference, it seems that we should be able to request the "Heating Coil Water Heating Electricity Energy" whenever there's a Coil:WaterHeating:AirToWaterHeatPump:Pumped in the model. But it's not available for some reason when the heating coil is a part of the heat pump water heater. I opened an issue on the EnergyPlus GitHub with a sample IDF file and, hopefully, we can get confirmation if this is the expected behavior.