A Solution to Prevent a Blackout Crisis: Determining the Behavioral Potential and Capacity of Solar Power

Table 9

Specifications of the bottom-up model.

Specifications of model	Parameter	Description
Simulation site	Tehran	According to the meteorological data of Tehran in the database of DesignBuilder software
Building type	3-story apartment	The first and third floors correspond to the first and last floors of each building and the second floor as the middle floors of the buildings
Computational core	EnergyPlus	Use DesignBuilder Graphics Interface 6.1.4.00.7
Building direction	20-degree angle with north direction	The predominant orientation of Tehran buildings
Building cooling coefficient	96.1%	96.1% of buildings in Tehran are cooled.
Simulation time steps	15 minutes
Basic simulation mode	Ashrae 90.1	According to the basic mode of DesignBuilder software
Building materials	Brick, iron, and other common materials in the interior of the building	According to the 2016 Population and Housing Census by the Statistical Centre of Iran
Cooling technology	Common technologies	“Results of Statistics on Energy Consumption and Environmental Characteristics of Urban Households in 2016” by the Statistics Center of Iran
Extension method	Archetype method	This method divides the building section into groups based on infrastructural, dimensional similarities, materials used, and more. The estimated energy for the representative of each group is developed for the whole building sector.
Building groups	50 m^2 and less	Sample building: 50 m^2
	51-75 m^2	Sample building: 65 m^2
	76-80 m^2	Sample building: 80 m^2
	81-100 m^2	Sample building: 90 m^2
	101-150 m^2	Sample building: 125 m^2
	151-200 m^2	Sample building: 175 m^2
	201-300 m^2	Sample building: 250 m^2
	301 m^2 and more	Sample building: 300 m^2