[Equest-users] Hourly Annual Schedule

[Neil Bulger]

Hi Rick,

Look at the Rocky Mountain Institute's website, they have a tool called the Energy Modeling Translator which is a free excel workbook that can create eQuest or EnergyPlus schedules. I used it to do exactly what you are describing. If you are making a fractional schedule, make sure that you round the numbers so they aren't 10 significant figures (eQuest does not like this) and also, in Excel, they give you a column with 8760 rows to paste your numbers into. Make sure to paste values, if you input an equation referencing other cells it freaks out.

If you can't figure it out, let me know and I can offer more suggestions.

-Neil

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Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:45 AM
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Subject: [Equest-users] Hourly Annual Schedule

Does anyone have a template to create a fractional schedule to cover all 8760 hours of a year? I have actual hourly load data that I want to plug in directly to my model. In older DOE-2 versions, you could read an external data file, but I'm not seeing this capability in eQuest, unless someone know of way to do that too.

Thanks for any replies,
Rick Routh
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