Scripted Building Energy Modeling and Analysis: Preprint

Conference · Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1050767

Hale, Elaine; Macumber, Daniel; Benne, Kyle; Goldwasser, David

Building energy modeling and analysis is currently a time-intensive, error-prone, and nonreproducible process. This paper describes the scripting platform of the OpenStudio tool suite (http://openstudio.nrel.gov) and demonstrates its use in several contexts. Two classes of scripts are described and demonstrated: measures and free-form scripts. Measures are small, single-purpose scripts thatconform to a predefined interface. Because measures are fairly simple, they can be written or modified by inexperienced programmers.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Building Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1050767
• Report Number(s): NREL/CP-5500-54774; TRN: US201218%%1540
• Resource Relation: Conference: Presented at IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2012, 1-3 August 2012, Madison, Wisconsin
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING
BUILDINGS
COMPUTER CODES
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
ENERGY ANALYSIS
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
building energy modeling and analysis (BEMA)
OpenStudio Software
graphical user interfaces