Most Energy Models Run. That Does Not Mean They Are Right.
An energy model can calculate successfully and still be misleading. Small assumptions in schedules, plug loads, ventilation, fan energy, cooling performance, or equipment curves can quietly change the results enough to affect incentives, compliance, ROI calculations, and design decisions.
How to Review Energy Modeling Results is a practical webinar for energy modelers, engineers, consultants, and reviewers who need to know whether an energy model is reasonable before relying on it.
Learn a Faster Way to Check Energy Model Results
This training walks through a repeatable energy model review process that helps you quickly identify red flags, validate major end uses, and determine whether the model results behave like a real building.
Instead of getting lost in every input, you will learn how to start with the outputs that matter most:
- End-use energy breakdowns
- Heating, cooling, fan, pump, lighting, and plug load patterns
- Energy use intensity, or EUI, comparisons
- Seasonal energy patterns
- Equivalent full load hours
- Net cooling efficiency and kW per ton checks
- Load sanity checks
- Unmet hours and model behavior
Why Energy Model Review Matters
Energy modeling is often used for LEED, 179D, utility incentives, code compliance, energy audits, retrofit analysis, and investment decisions. In each case, the model is only useful if the results are trustworthy.
A model with unrealistic schedules, inflated plug loads, excessive fan energy, incorrect ventilation, or poor part-load performance assumptions may still produce a clean-looking report. But those assumptions can distort savings and lead to bad decisions.
This webinar helps you look at energy modeling results the way an experienced reviewer would, while also showing where savings may be missing from the model.
What You Will Learn
- How to quickly review an energy model before using it for decisions or submissions
- How to spot end-use energy problems from pie charts and bar charts
- How to compare energy model results against realistic building benchmarks
- How to use seasonal patterns to find heating, cooling, fan, and pump issues
- How equivalent full load hours reveal schedule problems
- How cooling kWh and ton-hours can expose unrealistic equipment performance
- How miscellaneous loads can reduce reported savings
- How to identify measures that are not being captured correctly by the model
- How to decide whether a model is good enough to trust
Who This Webinar Is For
This energy modeling webinar is intended for professionals who already work with building energy models or rely on model results.
- Energy modelers
- Mechanical engineers
- Energy consultants
- Commissioning providers
- LEED energy model reviewers
- 179D and incentive program consultants
- Utility program participants
- Building performance professionals
Energy Modeling Results Should Be Defensible
The goal is not to make a perfect model. The goal is to create a model that is reasonable, explainable, and useful.
If the cooling energy is too high, the fan energy dominates the model, the plug loads are unrealistic, or the schedules do not match the building, the model may not be reliable enough to support savings claims. This webinar gives you a practical framework for finding those problems faster.