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Energy Model Diagnostics Series

Two advanced webinars that show you how to quickly review energy models, identify hidden errors, and uncover missing savings.

Learn how defaults, schedules, and part load assumptions impact results, and how to determine whether a model can actually be trusted.

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Energy Model Diagnostics Webinar Series

Two advanced webinars for engineers and energy modelers who want to find modeling errors, uncover missing savings, and understand when an energy model can actually be trusted.

Most models run. That does not mean they are right. These sessions focus on the practical review methods, default assumptions, and hidden modeling issues that can change savings, incentives, and project decisions.

Webinar 1: How to Review Energy Models

And Know If They Are Good Enough to Trust

This webinar walks through a practical, repeatable process for reviewing an energy model quickly and determining whether the results make sense.

You will learn how to:

  • Spot major modeling problems using simple visual checks
  • Compare model results against reasonable benchmarks
  • Review seasonal patterns for heating, cooling, fans, pumps, lighting, and plug loads
  • Use equivalent full load hours to check schedules
  • Evaluate cooling performance using net kW per ton
  • Identify savings that may be missing from the model
  • Know when a model is good enough to support decisions, submissions, or incentive work

Best for: Energy modelers, engineers, reviewers, and firms that need a faster way to check whether a model is reasonable before relying on it.

Webinar 2: Design Defaults and Suppressed Savings

Why Good Designs Still Underperform

This webinar explains how conservative defaults and design assumptions can stack together and quietly suppress the savings that good designs should be showing.

You will learn how:

  • Default assumptions multiply instead of simply adding together
  • Oversizing starts early and compounds through systems, pumps, fans, and equipment selections
  • Part load curves can dramatically change modeled energy use
  • Fan and pump defaults can hide major savings opportunities
  • Chiller, heat pump, and VFD assumptions can distort results
  • Good designs can appear to underperform because the model is still using conservative defaults
  • To identify where defaults should be challenged and where they should be left alone

Best for: Engineers and modelers working on efficient designs, incentive applications, calibrated models, or projects where the expected savings are not showing up.

What This Series Is Really About

Energy modeling is not just about getting a simulation to run. A model needs to behave like a real building, support real decisions, and withstand review.

These webinars focus on the issues that often get missed:

  • Models that look reasonable but are not reliable
  • Default schedules that distort savings
  • Oversized systems that change fan, pump, and reheat energy
  • Equipment curves that do not match actual performance
  • Measures that should save energy but show little or no benefit in the model
  • Assumptions that can make good designs look worse than they are

Who Should Attend

This series is intended for people who already work with energy models or rely on their results.

  • Energy modelers
  • Mechanical engineers
  • Energy consultants
  • Reviewers and QA/QC staff
  • Firms submitting models for incentives, code compliance, LEED, 179D, or utility programs
  • Anyone responsible for deciding whether a model is good enough to trust

Why These Webinars Matter

A small modeling assumption can change the outcome of a project.

A schedule can shift savings by several percent. A default part load curve can make high-efficiency equipment look ordinary. An oversized system can increase fan energy, cooling energy, and reheat energy at the same time.

These issues are often not obvious. Reviewers may catch compliance problems, but they usually will not tell you where your missing savings are. That is why a diagnostic review process matters.

What You Get

  • Access to both webinar recordings
  • Advanced practical guidance based on real model review experience
  • Examples of common modeling problems and how to recognize them
  • A better framework for reviewing models before relying on them

Get the Webinar Series

Get both webinars and learn how to review energy models more effectively, identify suppressed savings, and make better decisions from model results.

Need Help With a Real Model?

If you are working on a project and the model results do not seem right, I also provide targeted energy model reviews.

You can send one model, one system, or one concern, and I can help determine whether the issue is real, where it matters, and whether it is worth fixing.

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