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I’m looking for an easy to use program to model passive solar gains and determine daily temperature swings, taking thermal mass into account. My theory is that there should be a way to determine what the temperature of a house would be (theoretically) with no input of “bought” energy, with the goal of being able to guarantee a house will never drop below X degrees, regardless of whether the power is on or the woodstove stoked. ??
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I remember reading about some software somewhat along the lines of what you seek, but can't remember where - possibly at one of the US energy labs.
While it is not quite what you want, you might look at QuickPlan from the U of Florida:
http://www.iac.ufl.edu/iac/webs/default.asp
Some commercial software for PV siting (SolarSizer) is at:
http://solstice.crest.org/software-central
Some other sites to check out for possible links to places that may be of some help:
http://www.homepower.com/links.htm
http://www.irishlassie.com/solinks.html
You might ask the folks at Home Power if they know of anything:
http://www.homepower.com/