Possibility of Integration of IronBug Load Center Components with Dragonfly/URBANopt

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Hi @MingboPeng
I hope you are pretty well.

Thank you very much for your time and effort in developing the Load Center components for IronBug.

I was wondering how these components can be integrated into Dragonfly models.
I have tried several approaches, including:

1. Connecting the OSM output from the URBANopt engine to the IB_SaveToFile component, this attempt resulted in the following error (see below).

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  1. Solution exception:Invalid PV surface ID: Shade_5e350241

2. Using the hb_models output from DF Model to GeoJSON as input to IB_SaveToFile, this also produced the same PV surface ID error.

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I have attached the simulation file for your reference.

Load_Center_IB_for_Dragonfly.gh (201.5 KB)

@chris, @MingboPeng
Could you please advise on the recommended workflow for using the ElectricLoadCenter components of IronBug within the Dragonfly/URBANopt engine to enable urban-scale simulations of PV panels and electrical storage?

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.

Sincerely,
Behnam Mohseni Gharyehsafa
Maynooth, Ireland

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@MingboPeng
@chris

Sorry, I have the same question regarding the Solar Collector.

I am unable to attach the Solar Collector IB component to a DragonFly simulation.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could kindly help me address these two challenges.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance.