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<h1 style="font-weight: bold; font-size:
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Updates of EnergyPlus and OpenStudio</h1>
<p>During the last week of March,
DOE—working with a group of national
labs and contractors—released regularly
scheduled updates of its open-source,
cross-platform whole-building energy
modeling tools, the EnergyPlus engine
and the OpenStudio software development
kit and application.</p>
<p>EnergyPlus V8.5 includes the following
new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved sizing for pumps and reheat
coils</li>
<li>Improved economizer integration for
multi-speed coils</li>
<li>New ASHRAE single-zone VAV
fan-control</li>
<li>Electric storage controls</li>
<li>Significant speedups for daylighting
calculations in large models</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">During
the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the
EnergyPlus development team is
focusing on improving robustness and
execution speed and on internal code
restructuring to help with
maintenance, testing, and future
performance improvements. EnergyPlus
V8.5 includes fixes for over 90 bugs
and issues. With V8.5, the EnergyPlus
open-source licensing scheme has been
simplified. EnergyPlus is now
distributed under the standard BSD-3
license.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Whereas
EnergyPlus updates are released twice
a year, OpenStudio updates are
released quarterly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">OpenStudio
V1.11 new features include:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Application
support for dual-duct system layout</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Application
support for construction inheritance</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">These
complement features were introduced in
V1.10, released in December 2015: </span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Compatibility
with SketchUp 2016</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Support
for additional HVAC equipment types
and systems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Application
support for grid view</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: Symbol;"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">Improved
Radiance integration</span> </li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;
font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;">OpenStudio
V1.11 also supports EnergyPlus V8.5,
marking the first time OpenStudio has
supported the EnergyPlus version upon
the latter’s release. DOE plans to
continue this practice into the
future.</span></p>
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