Daylighting

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I've noticed that my parametric runs to enable Daylighting result in reduced Lighting energy consumption as expected, however, they also result in REDUCED heating energy consumption and INCREASED cooling energy consumption. I have "No-Shades" selected for the windows to prevent probability of shades drawn to skew the direct effect of daylighting. I would expect the heating energy to increase as the lighting energy decreased and vice versa on the cooling energy.

I always select "Yes Daylighting" in the Wizard. I then turn it off in the Detailed Edit mode. Then I reset it to "Yes" in the parametric run for the areas that the project is considering for daylighting controls.

Can anyone shed some light (no pun intended) on this?

-Tim

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