Abstract
This study reviews the origins of the analysis methods used to design high-performance commercial buildings. This study focuses on the origins of the analysis methods used in solar thermal, passive solar, and solar photovoltaic analysis software, developed in the United States and Canada, using a new comprehensive genealogy chart. This historical analysis is important because it gives readers a better understanding of the fundamentals of the analysis methods. The origins of the analysis methods of whole-building energy and daylighting simulation programs were reviewed in other works (Oh and Haberl 2015a, 2015b).
Nomenclature
5P | = | Five-Parameter Array Performance model |
DHW | = | domestic hot water |
FC | = | F-Chart method |
MPT | = | Modified Power Temperature Coefficient model |
PASOLE | = | Passive Solar Energy program |
PT | = | Power Temperature Coefficient model |
PV | = | photovoltaic |
PV-DesignPro | = | PV Design Program |
PVSS | = | Photovoltaic System Simulation |
RETScreen | = | Renewable Energy Technologies Screen software |
SAM | = | Solar Advisor Model |
SDHW | = | solar domestic hot water |
SERIRES | = | Solar Energy Research Institute Residential Energy Simulator program |
SLR | = | Solar Load Ratio |
SOLCEL | = | Solar Cell Model |
SPV | = | Sandia PV Array Performance model |
TN | = | Thermal Network method |
TRNSYS | = | Transient Systems Simulation program |
Un-UT | = | Un-Utilizability method |
UT | = | Utilizability method |