Add a "total building energy consumption" output for the "energy balance" component?

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Hi Mostapha and Chris,

The new energy balance component is great for understanding the various sources of heat gains and losses!

I wonder if we can add an additional output “total building energy consumption” for this component because it took me a while and several components to make this happen (see part of the workflow in the GH file attached.)

So, I made a copy of your energy balance code and added a few new lines using your original code as a template. Now we can output and plot this variable using bar chart.

Pls see if this is useful and necessary.

energy_breakdown_v002.gh (741 KB)

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This looks amazing! I’ve been out of it for some time now, where to I find this component? I updated to the last version, so is it just on github?

I can still use it from your attached file I guess! Thanks for that!

Kind regards,

Theodore.

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Hi Theodore, you may need to update your LB+HB library to use this new Energy Balance component. An example file is put on Hydra, a new portal to share GH workflow:

http://hydrashare.github.io/hydra/viewer?owner=NENEN&fork=hydra…

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the Energy Balance component should be in the 09 | Energy | Energy tab of Honeybee