EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption—for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and plug and …

The remainder of the Getting Started document provides beginning users with an introduction into how to run EnergyPlus, what files are needed for EnergyPlus to execute, and what files are produced …

In the late 1990s, concern about limitations of both BLAST and DOE-2 as well as diculty in maintaining the old code bases prompted combining the development eforts for a new program called …

EnergyPlus uses the term DataSets for what many would call libraries. These files are included, for the most part, in the instalation package but may be available from other sites (such as the …

This document provides an in-depth look at the Energy Management System (EMS) feature in EnergyPlus and provides a way to develop custom control and modeling routines for EnergyPlus …

Technical Details of Running EnergyPlus - this section gives full instructions on both EP-Launch and the IDF-Editor as well as some more details on running EnergyPlus manually.

Becauseofthemodular structure of EnergyPlus, each module is responsible for “getting” its own input. It receives this inputfromtheinputprocessorintheformofalphaandnumericfields.

The EnergyPlus building model consists of four main constructs: surfaces, spaces, zones, and enclosures. Thesearedefinedbelowalongwithsomeassumptionsandrelationshiprules.

The EMS feature in EnergyPlus uses “Actuators” to do control operations. The actuators avail-able in a given model depend on the non-EMS-related content of the input file.

The tabular reports from EnergyPlus were designed to help collate information into a form usually required for reporting on designs for energy use. The tabular reports are fully described in the Output …