Crazy talk! (and I mean that in the most positive way!)

If you set up everything perfectly, I don't reckon the solar gain would track perfectly with the heat output of the inverter however... if you think of this window oriented to match the PV array panels, they are making some juice (and waste heat) when there isn't a "direct solar gain" but they're still getting energy when the sun is out of the line of sight. I imagine there's some degree of "standby" power / heat gain as well when the PV panels are asleep at night.

Still set up well it could be a decent & quick stand-in for a more laborious 8760 schedule calculation to crunch and push into the model.

Once upon a time I lamented that transformers losses specified at the meter in eQUEST can't be attributed to a space/zone... Didn't foresee this potential application as I was focused on quantifying "premium efficiency" transformer savings, but alas I suspect that feature remains on the back burner.

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Nick Caton, P.E., BEMP
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