Beopt: Software for identifying optimal building designs on the path to zero net energy

Proceedings of the Solar World Congress 2005: Bringing Water to the World, Including Proceedings of 34th ASES Annual Conference and Proceedings of 30th National Passive Solar Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 55-60

  Christensen, Craig ^a   Courtney, Adam ^b   Horowitz, Scott ^b   Givler, Todd ^b   Barker, Greg ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Mountain Energy Partnership   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; BENCHMARK BUILDING; BUILDING AMERICA; BUILDING DESIGN; DESIGN POINTS; END-USES; ENERGY-SAVING BUILDINGS; NEGATIVE INTERACTION; NET ENERGY; OPTIMAL PATHS; PATH-BASED; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS; PROJECT FILE; SEQUENTIAL SEARCH; SIMULATION ENGINE;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84870481664     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

1. Hendron, R., Building America Research Benchmark Definition, NREL/TP-550-37529, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, February 2005
2. York, D. and Cappiello, C., eds., 1981, DOE-2 Reference Manual (Version 2.1A), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
3. Klein, S., et al, 1996, TRNSYS: A Transient System Simulation Program - Reference Manual, Solar Energy Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
4. Christensen, C., Barker, G., Horowitz, S., A Sequential Search Technique for Identifying Optimal Building Designs on the Path to Zero Net Energy, Proceedings of the Solar 2004, Portland, OR, American Solar Energy Society, 2004