Heating and Cooling Days

Heating Degree Days (HDD) and Cooling Degree Days (CDD) describe how much the outside temperature differs from a configured base temperature. They help relate weather conditions to heating and cooling demand.

Configure default base temperatures at tenant level, then enable Heating Days, Cooling Days, or both individually for each asset. The service creates hourly degree-day attributes that can be used throughout the platform, including in calculations, dashboards, analytics, reports, rules, and rule chains.

Prerequisites

To calculate Heating and Cooling Degree Days, the asset must belong to a site. The site must have a configured location. The service uses this location to retrieve weather data and calculate the degree-day values. Heating and Cooling Days can be applied to any asset type.

How Degree Days Are Calculated

The service calculates a temperature difference for each interval and writes the corresponding contribution to the heap. With an hourly interval, the written value is one twenty-fourth of the daily degree-day contribution because Degree Days are a daily unit, not Degree Hours.

The formulas are:

$$HDD_{hour} = \max(T_{base,HDD} - T_{outside}, 0) \times \frac{1}{24}$$

$$CDD_{hour} = \max(T_{outside} - T_{base,CDD}, 0) \times \frac{1}{24}$$

HDD_hour and CDD_hour are the values written for one hourly interval. No value is added when the relevant temperature difference is zero or below. To display the actual Degree Days, aggregate the hourly attribute with Sum over a day. The same approach can be used over longer periods, such as a month or a year.

Guides

• Open Heating and Cooling Days

• Configure Tenant Defaults

• Configure Heating and Cooling Days for an Asset

Use Degree-Day Attributes

Degree-Day attributes behave like other asset attributes. You can use them in calculations, dashboards, analytics, reports, rules, and rule chains. For example, compare energy consumption with Heating Degree Days to analyze heating-related demand, or use Cooling Degree Days as an input for a calculation.

To determine the Cooling Degree Days for a whole day, select the Cooling degree days attribute in Asset Data, set the aggregation interval to Day, and use the Sum aggregation. For a whole year, set the time period to the required year and keep Sum as the aggregation. The same method applies to Heating Degree Days. For general guidance on aggregation methods, see Aggregations in BuildingPro Suites.