PV and Battery Model ingestion issue

[judymin88]

We are testing the PV and Battery model. When modifying the sample file to add PV and Battery, the related variables are not in the output. Here is the modified file we used (the .xml file was converted to .txt for upload): sample_resstock_properties.txt

When testing the water heater model, we modified the file similarly and were able to successfully see the associated variables in the output.

We did notice that if we add PV and Battery to 'dwelling_args' and run 'house = Dwelling(**dwelling_args)' the PV and battery variables such as 'Battery Electric Power (kW)' are present in the simulation output.

Is there something we are missing that is causing this issue?

Thank you!

FYI,
@yuyi-d

[mnblonsky]

OCHRE does not currently read in PV, Battery, or EV inputs from HPXML files. This is relatively new functionality in HPXML, and we haven't incorporated it yet. For now, the only way to simulate them is to specify them in the dwelling_args.

We're hoping to add that functionality eventually, but it's not a high priority yet.

[jmaguire1]

@mnblonsky: This is going to be a way higher priority when ResStock adds Hawaii in a few months. We should talk when I'm back about what it'd take to use these inputs (at least for PV, batteries won't show up in ResStock in a while, although they're supported in HPXML)