Errors in Audit Prediction of Commercial Lighting and Equipment Loads and Their Impacts on Heating and Cooling Estimates
商业照明和设备负荷审计预测中的错误及其对供暖和制冷估算的影响
Uses a sample of 13 buildings that have received energy audits and are instrumented to collect end-use metered data to illustrate the uncertainty and range of errors in end-use loads predicted by energy audits in commercial buildings. The analysis focuses on audit prediction of pre-retrofit annual lighting and miscellaneous equipment loads and their impacts on the heating and cooling load estimates. Finds that the mean errors are in the order of 20% to 40%, which suggests the need for further analysis of more fundamental thermal analysis errors.KEYWORDS: Buildings, USA, energy auditing, accuracy, commercial, lighting, heat load, cooling load.