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Hi all,

I am running into an issue with the energyplus property Meter:Custom. I have a building that has residential portion and commercial - and I am creating two separate meters so that I can assign different rate structures.

The issue I am running into is in creating the residential meter. Essentially in order to create the residential meter I created individual meters for each end use for all my residential thermal zones. I then tried to add all my individual residential end use meters into a custom ResidentialElectric meter. Example below:

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialLighting,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Lights Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Electric Equipment Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialHeating,
  Electricity,
  CoilHtg_ResZone-1,
  Heating Coil Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialElectric,
  Electricity,
  ,
  ResidentialLights,
  ,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  ,
  ResidentialHeating;

Now - when checking the mtd file i see that all the variables set in meters ResidentialLighting, ResidentialRecepticle, and ResdientialHeating are all there. But the meter ResidentialElectric is blank - and when output in the meter.csv file shows 0 energy. My understanding is that a custom meter has the same property as any other meter. I was wondering if anyone has had experience in creating a custom meter that adds other custom meters, or if this is even a possibility.

Thanks

I am running into an issue with the energyplus property Meter:Custom. Meter:Custom. I have a building that has residential portion and commercial - and I am creating two separate meters so that I can assign different rate structures.

The issue I am running into is in creating the residential meter. Essentially in order to create the residential meter I created individual meters for each end use for all my residential thermal zones. I then tried to add all my individual residential end use meters into a custom ResidentialElectric ResidentialElectric meter. Example below:

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialLighting,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Lights Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Electric Equipment Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialHeating,
  Electricity,
  CoilHtg_ResZone-1,
  Heating Coil Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialElectric,
  Electricity,
  ,
  ResidentialLights,
  ,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  ,
  ResidentialHeating;

Now - when checking the mtd file i see that all the variables set in meters ResidentialLighting, ResidentialRecepticle, ResidentialLighting, ResidentialRecepticle, and ResdientialHeating ResdientialHeating are all there. But the meter ResidentialElectric ResidentialElectric is blank - and when output in the meter.csv meter.csv file shows 0 energy.

My understanding is that a custom meter has the same property as any other meter. I was wondering if anyone has had experience in creating a custom meter that adds other custom meters, or if this is even a possibility.

Thanks possibility.

I am running into an issue with the energyplus property Meter:Custom. I have a building that has residential portion and commercial - and I am creating two separate meters so that I can assign different rate structures.

The issue I am running into is in creating the residential meter. Essentially in order to create the residential meter I created individual meters for each end use for all my residential thermal zones. I then tried to add all my individual residential end use meters into a custom ResidentialElectric meter. Example below:

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialLighting,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Lights Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  Electricity,
  ResZone-1,
  Electric Equipment Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialHeating,
  Electricity,
  CoilHtg_ResZone-1,
  Heating Coil Electric Energy;

Meter:Custom,
  ResidentialElectric,
  Electricity,
  ,
  ResidentialLights,
  ,
  ResidentialRecepticle,
  ,
  ResidentialHeating;

Now - when checking the mtd file i see that all the variables set in meters ResidentialLighting, ResidentialRecepticle, and ResdientialHeating are all there. But the meter ResidentialElectric is blank - and when output in the meter.csv file shows 0 energy.

My understanding is that a custom meter has the same property as any other meter. I was wondering if anyone has had experience in creating a custom meter that adds other custom meters, or if this is even a possibility.