Confused about Cooling Energy when Using Operable Windows?

Thanks @AbrahamYezioro it is useful.

It’s worth highlighting one point that Chris makes in that discussion, that I didn’t bring up here was that the minimum outdoor air can be a lot cooler then your cooling setpoint. So, my rule of thumb is: we should keep the indoor NV setpoints 1 to 2 setpoints inside the heating/cooling setpoints, but set the minimum outdoor air lower then the cooling setpoint.

Determining that minimum outdoor air is really a function of your buildings internal gains, so I think calculating that with the building/zone balance point is a good way to approximate it.

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