The following article explains how to configure consumption details in New HelioScope for financials & proposals. You will be able to manually input the monthly consumption numbers for your designs.
To upload a consumption file, follow the instructions found here.
Manually Editing Monthly Consumption
- There are two ways to add consumption files and data:
a. Open a Project, select the Energy Usage tab, and click the pencil icon on the Consumption tile:
b. Or open a project in the Designer, click on the Storage icon, and enable Storage Simulation:
Then, under Consumption, click the "Pencil" icon
2. Edit by month by selecting the month from the drop-down and adding the kWh in the text box. Click Advanced Configuration to input multiple months of consumption:
3. Next, click on Edit to enter multiple months of consumption data:
4. If not all months of the data are available, HelioScope will automatically fill in the remaining months. These will be the values in grey. The remaining months will be determined by the load profile of the building type (US only) or by the average of the months that you’ve input.
5. (For US only) We can simulate the load profile for different building types using data provided by NREL. You can customize the automated load profile by changing the Usage Site weather file and/or changing the Building Type.
6. Make sure to click Save Changes to apply your new consumption profile to the design.