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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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.

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 …