# HB-Energy Primer

![HB-Energy](https://github.com/ladybug-tools/artwork/raw/master/icons_bugs/grasshopper_tabs/small/HB-Energy.png)

This primer provides an overview of the Honeybee Energy components for Grasshopper.

Honeybee-energy extends the core capabilities of the honeybee plugin to enable enable simulation of models in [EnergyPlus](https://github.com/NREL/EnergyPlus). Honeybee-energy leverages the [OpenStudio](https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio) SDK in order to add energy simulation properties and capabilities.

## Installation

See the [Wiki of the lbt-grasshopper repository](https://github.com/ladybug-tools/lbt-grasshopper/wiki) for the installation instructions for the entire Ladybug Tools Grasshopper plugin (including honeybee-grasshopper-energy).

## Resources

Post your questions to [Ladybug Tools forum](http://discourse.ladybug.tools) and see the [honeybee-grasshopper-energy](https://github.com/ladybug-tools/honeybee-grasshopper-energy) repository for source code.

Please [let us know](https://github.com/ladybug-tools/honeybee-grasshopper-energy/issues) if you find any mistakes in grammar or spelling in this primer and we will gladly fix them.


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