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Energy Plus: Performance & Energy Evaluation Saffa Roshan PM

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program used by engineers and architects to model energy and water consumption in buildings. It is a free and open-source program developed by the U.S. Department of Energy that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and calculates building heating, cooling, and energy loads based on user descriptions of buildings and systems.

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Energy Plus: Performance & Energy Evaluation Saffa Roshan PM

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program used by engineers and architects to model energy and water consumption in buildings. It is a free and open-source program developed by the U.S. Department of Energy that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux and calculates building heating, cooling, and energy loads based on user descriptions of buildings and systems.

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ENERGY PLUS

Performance & Energy Evaluation


Saffa Roshan PM
WHAT IS ENERGY
PLUS
 EnergyPlus is a whole building energy
simulation program that engineers,
architects, and researchers use to model
both energy consumption—for heating,
cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and
process loads—and water use in buildings.
 EnergyPlus is a console-based program
that reads input and writes output to text
files.
EnergyPlus is an energy analysis and
thermal load simulation program.
EnergyPlus is free, open-source, and cross-platform
It runs on the Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems.
Its development is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Building Technologies Office (BTO).
Along with OpenStudio, EnergyPlus is part of BTO’s building energy
modeling program portfolio.
Based on a user’s description of a building from the perspective of the
building’s physical makeup, associated mechanical systems, etc.,
EnergyPlus will calculate the heating and cooling loads necessary to
maintain thermal control setpoints, conditions throughout an secondary
HVAC system and coil loads, and the energy consumption of primary plant
equipment as well as many other simulation details that are necessary to
verify that the simulation is performing as the actual building would.
THE DIAGRAM BELOW SHOWS A BASIC
OVERVIEW OF THE INTEGRATION OF
THESE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF A
BUILDING ENERGY SIMULATION.
EP-LAUNCH
PROGRAM

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