Conference Paper

Proceedings of SimBuild Conference 2024

RESI: A Power Outage Event And Typical Weather File Generator For Future Resilient Building Design And Operation

Zixin Jiang, Bing Dong
Syracuse University, United States of America

Abstract: Buildings are expected to be resilient toward future climate change and more frequent disrupt events. Therefore, understanding building performance under various future weather conditions and disrupt events is crucial. From this perspective, we developed a data generator tool for power outage events and future typical weather files, which provides both raw and synthetic data for researchers. They can download ready-to-use data with a single click by simply inputting the city name, time span, and CO2 emission scenarios. In addition, we conducted an EnergyPlus case study to compare energy consumption differences and building performance under power outages and future weather files. The results indicate that in an extreme warm weather condition under RCP8.5, ambient air temperature could increase by up to 7°C, which doubled the cooling demand. While the 50th and 90th percentile of history power outage is 5.5 hours and 72 hours respectively and can be used as reference for resilience-based design. The study also identified extreme weather as the dominant factor in power outage events, potentially causing up to 60% uncertainty in energy system management.
Keywords: Resilience, Power Outage, Future Climate
Pages: 386 - 394
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