DOE2-2ers,
I have read the ELEC-METER pages of the DOE2-2 dictionary and just don't
see how to assign the various electrical loads from my building to the
meters. It mentions "INTERIOR-POWER", "INTERIOR-SCH", "INTERIOR-EU",
"EXTERIOR-POWER", "EXTERIOR-SCH", and "EXTERIOR-EU", but offers no
clarifying examples. Furthermore, "INTERIOR-POWER" and "EXTERIOR-POWER" are
described as accepting "...a list of up to 10 values of hourly electrical
energy consumed by miscellaneous uses... ...that do not show up anywhere
else." Clear as mud.
Electrically-powered HVAC systems exist. Electrically-powered DHW
systems exist. Various lighting systems will be defined and assigned to
spaces. Exterior lighting systems will be defined. I just want to asssign
these electrical loads to their proper meters.
Does anybody know how to do this? Does anyone have an excerpt from a
.inp file that can serve as a clarifying example?
Thanks.
Lars Fetzek, EI
Lars,
You assign meters at the Air-Side HVAC system level. Select a system and
go to the Meters tab. You can assign direct interior and exterior loads
(such as exterior lighting) to meters within the Utility & Economics
module by selecting the meter in the Component Tree.
William Bishop, EIT, LEED(r) AP
Lars,
By Default, all the electric loads go to EM1. If you want to assign
internal end-uses to different meters you can do it through the air-side
HVAC zone tab. As always - if you want to modify the end use metering
for a single zone, change it manually. If you want to modify the end use
metering for all the zones, change the default (so you don't have to go
in and do them one at a time.
You probably already know this, but when you create a second meter it
doesn't get added automatically to the utility rate, you have to go in
and add it there.
Hope this helps
Vikram Sami, LEED AP