Journal
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 2331-2337Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2010.07.027
Keywords
Energy consumption estimation; Building energy consumption; Benchmark Models; EnergyPlus
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The evaluation of building energy consumption usually requires building energy profiles on an hourly basis. Computer simulations can be used to obtain this information but generating simulations requires a significant amount of experience, time, and effort to enter detailed building parameters. This paper presents a simple methodology to estimate hourly electrical and fuel energy consumption of a building by applying a series of predetermined coefficients to the monthly energy consumption data from electrical and fuel utility bills. The advantage of having predetermined coefficients is that it relieves the user from the burden of performing a detailed dynamic simulation of the building. The coefficients provided to the user are obtained by running EnergyPlus Benchmark Models simulations; thus, the simulation process is transparent to the user. The methodology has been applied to a hypothetical building placed both in Atlanta, GA, and in Meridian, MS, and in both cases, errors obtained for the estimated hourly energy consumption are mainly within 10%. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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