Hi, I wonder if there is a simple way to add total facility Gas as an output variable?
I know that I can add the output variable “Facility Total Purchased Electricity Energy” to get the total electricity, but is there something similar for Gas?
There must be a simple way to report this total, no?
thanks!
@edpmay
ah! Thanks @Erikbeeren ,
Can I ask: when you say you ‘found’ these, how does that work? I’m just not familiar with the process here and wondering how its supposed to work?
Reading the E+ PDfs, it seems to suggest that the ‘right’ method is to first run a simulation without any outputs, then open the resulting *.rdd file to see what variables are allowed / present? Is that the right way to approach this sort of thing?
using that method, and iterating through the different HB-Energy HVAC templates, I was able to find the following 13 different ‘Gas’ variables (just doing a search for the word ‘Gas’ in the .rdd each time)
So to get the total gas, I suppose I could just get the sum of all the energy values here?
Seems like there is the possibility of missing something - but I don’t see any ‘Facility’ level output variables anyplace?
Yes this is the right approach. When you have a HVAC system attached the amount of outputs will vary according to the system. So is you have a system with all these different gas-fired equipments the total use off gas is the sum of these parts.
