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Great work. If you knew the capacity of the heat recovery system over time (from hourly data), you could simulate a simple plant loop with district heating, heat recovery pump (as designed), and heat recovery coil (as designed). Input the nominal capacity of district heating to maximum heat recovery capacity and input the capacity fraction schedule of district heating to a hourly schedule. Finally, input the setpoints of the loop and coil as designed. Heat recovery for cooling could be similar except using district cooling instead of district heating. Comments?

With an EnergyPlus Measure, you can add an idf file which describe the "WindowProperty:FrameAndDivider" object. But you cannot set the frame and divider name in the ""FenestrationSurface:Detailed" object. Line 1 in the below script sets the frame and divider name to "Aluminum". Line 2 gets the name of the frame and divider name which is empty.

    fenestration.setString(7,"Aluminum")
    fenestration_frame = fenestration.getString(7)
    runner.registerInfo("Redefined Frame: #{fenestration_frame}")

Got it... Thanks...

I wrote a simple OpenStudio/EnergyPlus measure to add the required files. Is there a place to share files on this website?

In OpenStudio 1.5.3, there is a comment under Utility Rates tab to import your utility rates under the Measure tab. Under the Measure tab, no link to import utility rates. In Online BCL, no measure to import utility rates. Perhaps I'm missing something...

Typically the frame effects of the window can be simulated without using the "WindowProperty:FrameAndDivider" object in EnergyPlus by modifying the airspace thickness. However, if you interested in the effect of condensation on the frame in very cold climate or in high humidity climate, you need to model the window frames. In the Openstudio plug-in v1.5.3, there is a place to add "Frame and Divider Name" in the "OS:SubSurface" object, but no place to describe the frame.