A repository for a CEA plugin that calculates crop yields (kg), environmental impacts including GHG Emissions (kg CO2-eq), energy (kWh) and water use (litre), costs including capital and oeprational expenditures (USD) for the selected crop type on the selected building envelope surface.
To install, clone this repo to a desired path (you would need to have git installed to run this command. Alternatively, you can also run this command in the CEA console, which comes with git pre-installed):
git clone https://github.com/shizhongming/cea-plugin-bia.git DESIRED_PATH
Open CEA console and enter the following command to install the plugin to CEA:
pip install -e /Users/your_name/Documents/GitHub/cea-plugin-bia
In the CEA console, enter the following command to enable the Calc-Dli plugin in CEA:
cea-config write --general:plugins bia.calc_dli.CalcDliPlugin
In the CEA console, enter the following command to enable the BIA-assessment plugin in CEA:
cea-config write --general:plugins bia.bia_assessment.BiaAssessmentPlugin
In the CEA console, enter the following command to enable the BIA-profiler plugin in CEA:
cea-config write --general:plugins bia.bia_profiler.BiaProfilerPlugin
In the CEA console, enter the following command to enable the BIA-plotter plugin in CEA:
cea-config write --general:plugins bia.bia_plotter.BiaPlotterPlugin
(Following the steps and ignore warnings, if any.)
Now you should be able to enter the following command to run the plugin:
cea calc-dli
cea bia-assessment
cea bia-profiler
cea bia-plotter