[Bldg-sim] Role of Global Solar radiation in Simulation

[aviruch bhatia]

Dear Larry,

Thank you for the reply.
Yes, we measured the hourly global horizontal radiation for a year. It would be so great if you can share the algorithms developed. We will also go through the information which ASHRAE is providing in this regard.

We took a existing weather file and we changed the global horizontal radiation value (also tried with an option making this value zero through out the data) and used this modified weather file to run a model in Designbuilder and Energyplus. We couldn't find any affect of global radiation on the energy consumption of the building.(A building with HVAC system) 
Wanted to confirm whether Designbuilder and Energyplus use global radiation value of the weather file in the  the simulation. 


Thanks & Regards,


Aviruch Bhatia

M. Tech. (Final Year)

Energy Engineering

Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur

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