Attention

WARNING: From 8am on 30th June until 5pm on 4th July 2025, there will be no access to the Stanage HPC cluster.

We will try to minimise this downtime and it is possible that Stanage will return to service before 4th July. We will notify you by email when Stanage is back online and available for job submission.

EnergyPlus

EnergyPlus is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model energy and water use in buildings.

Interactive usage

The latest version of EnergyPlus (currently version 24.1.0) is made available with the command:

$ module load EnergyPlus/24.1.0-foss-2022b

After this any of the EnergyPlus commands can be run from the terminal prompt. The available commands can be obtained using:

$ energyplus --help

Batch Submission

An example batch submission script for this file is :

#!/bin/bash
# Request 4 gigabytes of real memory
#SBATCH --mem=4G
#SBATCH --mail-user=a.person@sheffield.ac.uk
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL

module load EnergyPlus/24.1.0-foss-2022b

# Set paths to input and output directories
INPUT_FILE=/path/to/your/input_file.idf
WEATHER_FILE=/path/to/weather_file.epw
OUTPUT_DIR=/path/to/output_directory

# Run EnergyPlus
energyplus -w $WEATHER_FILE -r -d $OUTPUT_DIR -i $INPUT_FILE

The above is saved to a file called run_job.sh and submitted with :

sbatch run_job.sh

Installation notes

EnergyPlus version 24.1.0 was installed using Easybuild 4.9.2, build details can be found in $EBROOTENERGYPLUS/easybuild with the module loaded.