Comparing EnergyPlus to Other Programs¶
A paper comparing and contrasting Energy Simulation Programs can be found here:
http://www.ibpsa.org/proceedings/BS2005/BS05_0231_238.pdf
As this paper was published in 2005, it is out of date (at least with current EnergyPlus capabilities).
The feature highlights from EnergyPlus releases can be seen here:
https://energyplus.net/features https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus/releases
In addition you can see how EnergyPlus compares to other programs (which have submitted their models) in our testing reports: