[Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

[Jonathan Bowser]

So in doing a little more reading on the available reports, it looks like the LS-L report provides the solar radiation that passes through the glazing for every space.  This wouldn't necessarily give the solar radiation that the entire wall was exposed to, but what if you were to do something along the lines of creating a piece of glazing with the least energy efficient properties possible and cover the entirety of every wall on a shell with that glazed material?

With that type of model, would the results in the LS-L report provide a somewhat "accurate" representation of the solar radiation the wall is being exposed to?  If so, would it not then be plausible to use those numbers, in conjunction with the properties of a given set of solar panels, to conceptually estimate the energy created by the panels?

I'm just trying to think outside the box here!

-- Jon




Jonathan Bowser

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bowser
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

Looking at this from another angle... is there a report that would provide the solar energy incident to a face on the building?  The thought being if we know the solar energy hitting part of the building, we could run that through some set of calculations to conceptually estimate the amount of energy that would be generated by the solar panels?

-- Jon



Jonathan Bowser

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bowser
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

To the rescue again, Nick!

Thanks for the quick response.

-- Jon




Jonathan Bowser

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Beck Technology

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From: Nick Caton [mailto:ncaton at smithboucher.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:29 PM
To: Jonathan Bowser; equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: RE: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

Hi Jon!

It's all later, in detailed.

~Nick

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From: equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bowser
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 1:00 PM
To: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Subject: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

I've skimmed through the DD Wizard in eQUEST and haven't noticed anything along these lines, but I thought maybe someone here would have experience with this.

Is there a way of inputting any level of solar panel information into eQUEST through the wizard, or would this all be handled lower in the detailed data edit mode?

-- Jon



Jonathan Bowser

Senior Software Engineer

Beck Technology

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