Metering Best Practices Applied in the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Research Support Facility: A Primer to the 2011 Measured and Modeled Energy Consumption Datasets

Sheppy, M. ; Beach, A. ; Pless, S.

关键词: RESEARCH SUPPORT FACILITY;    RSF;    CONTROL STRATEGY;    ENERGY MODELING;    NREL;    NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY;    Electricity;    Resources;    and Buildings Systems;    Buildings;    Energy Analysis;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1076618
RP-ID  :  NREL/TP-5500-57785
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1076618

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Modern buildings are complex energy systems that must be controlled for energy efficiency. The Research Support Facility (RSF) at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has hundreds of controllers -- computers that communicate with the building's various control systems -- to control the building based on tens of thousands of variables and sensor points. These control strategies were designed for the RSF's systems to efficiently support research activities. Many events that affect energy use cannot be reliably predicted, but certain decisions (such as control strategies) must be made ahead of time. NREL researchers modeled the RSF systems to predict how they might perform. They then monitor these systems to understand how they are actually performing and reacting to the dynamic conditions of weather, occupancy, and maintenance.