[Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof

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You could get the hourly report for solar radiation on each surface.
-Rohini

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Jonathan Bowser <
JonathanBowser at beck-technology.com> wrote:

>  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?
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> 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?
>
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>
> I’m just trying to think outside the box here!
>
>
>
> -- Jon
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> *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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> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof
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> 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?
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> -- Jon
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> *Jonathan Bowser*
>
> Senior Software Engineer
>
> Beck Technology
>
> 1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 500
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> Dallas, TX 75201
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> www.beck-technology.com
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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
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] Solar Panels on the roof
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> To the rescue again, Nick!
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> Thanks for the quick response.
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>
>
> -- Jon
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> *Jonathan Bowser*
>
> Senior Software Engineer
>
> Beck Technology
>
> 1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 500
>
> Dallas, TX 75201
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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!
>
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>
> It’s all later, in detailed.
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> ~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
>
> 1807 Ross Avenue, Suite 500
>
> Dallas, TX 75201
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Rohini Brahme, Ph.D. LEED AP
Building energy analysis, tool development, and training
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX
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