[EnergyPlus_Support] Extracting Total Cooling Load required for a building

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We are analyzing some of the DOE Commercial Prototype Building Models in energy plus and trying to extract hourly total heating and cooling loads. In doing so, we've outputted both "Cooling Coil Source Side Heat Transfer Energy" and "Cooling Coil Total Cooling Rate" on an hourly basis. The building type in question is the "High-Rise Apartment", which is modeled with a system of heat pumps according to the building description. When the two values are compared (of course after converting the former to a rate by dividing by 3600), they are off by between 24-27% in each instance. On another building they were exactly the same.