Energy consumption characteristics of day lighted buildings with skylight

With an energy simulation software—eQUEST, analyses the influence of skylight day lighting on peak cooling load in summer, and the variation of reduction quantity of lighting energy consumption, cooling energy consumption, heating energy consumption and total building energy consumption with the open area of the skylight. Discusses the impact of skylight shading coefficient on energy consumption. For the typical cities in different climate conditions, analyses the energy consumption difference of skylight day lighting.