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Julien's response answers the bulk of your question but regarding the approach of using several short run periods with EnergyPlus to shorten run time has been considered for code compliance tools such as COM-Check by PNNL and included with CBECC-Com by the California Energy Commission because it provides a remarkably good indicator of energy usage and uses only about a quarter of the time.
PNNL has documented this approach in the report:
Julien's response answers the bulk of your question but regarding the approach of using several short select run periods (four one-week long run periods) with EnergyPlus to shorten run time has been considered for code compliance tools such as COM-Check by PNNL and included with CBECC-Com by the California Energy Commission because it provides a remarkably good indicator of energy usage and uses only about a quarter of the time.
PNNL has documented this approach in the report:
Julien's Julian's response answers the bulk of your question but regarding the approach of using select run periods (four one-week long run periods) with EnergyPlus to shorten run time has been considered for code compliance tools such as COM-Check by PNNL and included with CBECC-Com by the California Energy Commission because it provides a remarkably good indicator of energy usage and uses only about a quarter of the time.
PNNL has documented this approach in the report:
Julian's response answers the bulk of your question but regarding the The approach of using select run periods (four one-week long run periods) with EnergyPlus to shorten run time has been considered for code compliance tools such as COM-Check by PNNL and included with CBECC-Com by the California Energy Commission because it provides a remarkably good indicator of energy usage and uses only about a quarter of the time.
PNNL has documented this approach in the report: