Scripted Building Energy Modeling and Analysis: Preprint

Title: Scripted Building Energy Modeling and Analysis: Preprint

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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.

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

Publication Date:: 2012-08-01

Research Org.:: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Building Technologies Office (EE-5B)

OSTI Identifier:: 1050767

Report Number(s):: NREL/CP-5500-54774
TRN: US201218%%1540

DOE Contract Number:: AC36-08GO28308

Resource Type:: Conference

Resource Relation:: Conference: Presented at IBPSA-USA SimBuild 2012, 1-3 August 2012, Madison, Wisconsin

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 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

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