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.