Parameterized residential prototypes with sizing and unmet hours fixes

[Justin-DeBlois]

Parameterized residential prototypes with sizing and unmet hours fixes

Pull Request (PR) Description

This pull request builds off of the SWWH037-01 Heat Pump Combined Space and DHW with TES work (#110), which creates simplified residential prototype root files with HVAC and DHW templates to make it possible to model more configurations.

Additional changes have been made and discussed with the eTRM HVAC/Water Heating SME Collaboration Meeting:

• Revised design day internal gains schedules.
• Revised design day temperature setpoint schedules.
• Revised thermostat objects for design day and simulation year.
• Revised sizing run options

The results showed reduced unmet hours, bringing most models to <300 total. In addition, autosized cooling capacities increased to be closer to field data on installed units. Autosized heating capacities increased but remain lower than field data, possibly explained by overly conservative sizing approaches used in the field.

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[rogerkbaker]

I reviewed this work previously and see no issues with it.

[sepideh-QEA]

@Justin-DeBlois — This PR doesn’t merge cleanly into current sound-data/main. Git reports conflicts on 13 paths where both main and this branch have different versions of the same files: all 10 combi templates/root.pxt under prototypes/residential/ and the 3 shared templates res-zone-hvac-combi.pxt, res-hw-system-combi.pxt, and res-water-heater-combi.pxt under templates/energyplus/templates/.
Those combi paths already exist on main today; this PR updates them again with divergent content (e.g. sizing parameters, SimulationControl / sizing flags, mains water Schedule:File path style, CDD schedule handling, etc.), so they need an explicit merge/rebase resolution.
Could you merge or rebase sound-data/main into this branch, resolve those 13 files, and push to Res-Dev-Alternative-Residential-Prototypes? I don’t have push access to the head branch, so I can’t use GitHub’s conflict UI to finish it from here.
Thanks!

[Justin-DeBlois]

@sepideh-QEA I merged the branches- all conflicts should be resolved now.