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Updated Typical Weather Years for the Energy Simulation of Buildings in Mediterranean Climate. A Case Study for Sicily

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  • Vincenzo Costanzo

    (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy)

  • Gianpiero Evola

    (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy)

  • Marco Infantone

    (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy)

  • Luigi Marletta

    (Department of Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Catania, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95123 Catania, Italy)

Abstract

Building energy simulations are normally run through Typical Weather Years (TWYs) that reflect the average trend of local long-term weather data. This paper presents a research aimed at generating updated typical weather files for the city of Catania (Italy), based on 18 years of records (2002–2019) from a local weather station. The paper reports on the statistical analysis of the main recorded variables, and discusses the difference with the data included in a weather file currently available for the same location based on measurements taken before the 1970s but still used in dynamic energy simulation tools. The discussion also includes a further weather file, made available by the Italian Thermotechnical Committee (CTI) in 2015 and built upon the data registered by the same weather station but covering a much shorter period. Three new TWYs are then developed starting from the recent data, according to well-established procedures reported by ASHRAE and ISO standards. The paper discusses the influence of the updated TWYs on the results of building energy simulations for a typical residential building, showing that the cooling and heating demand can differ by 50% or even 65% from the simulations based on the outdated weather file.

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  • Vincenzo Costanzo & Gianpiero Evola & Marco Infantone & Luigi Marletta, 2020. "Updated Typical Weather Years for the Energy Simulation of Buildings in Mediterranean Climate. A Case Study for Sicily," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-24, August.
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