[Bldg-sim] Fwd: Re: Cost of climate file

Sat Nov 12 10:46:25 PST 2016

If I understood it correctly from one of my clients, Weather Analytics may
be using a subscription model for their weather files. This would likely
mean that you must be a high volume weather file user in order to make it
economical.

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Andrew Corney via Bldg-sim <
bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> Weather analytics do still provide weather files for the industry and
> Sefaira uses their epw files for our EnergyPlus analysis where other
> information is not available.
>
> That said I echo your sentiments that Joe is great at responding to
> questions on this forum and it's greatly appreciated by the industry.
>
> Best,
>
> Andrew
>
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> Andrew Corney
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> On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Nicholas Caton via Bldg-sim <
> bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org> wrote:
>
> As someone with zero financial interests in any of the mentioned weather
> service companies, and as a consumer who has used these services (and also
> practiced a fair bit of composing/vetting my own weather files from raw
> data):
>
>
>
> I think it speaks volumes and is worth highlighting that one of the owners
> of these service companies seems to contribute to/answer 99% of the
> questions posed about weather data sources and how to manipulate them, both
> this in forum and elsewhere.
>
>
>
> Thanks Joe, for your pro bono services to our community, as well as the
> paid ones!
>
>
>
> I’m also comfortable recommending WBT’s services to new and experienced
> simulators alike.
>
>
>
> I should also insert Weather Analytics (a service I used to frequently
> recommend) shifted into new management/markets in the last year or so, and
> I don’t believe they service the “building energy simulation sector” any
> more in the way they used to.  If anyone has experience to the contrary and
> has been able to do business with them in recent months I’d be keen to hear
> about it!
>
>
>
> ~Nick
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> *From:* Bldg-sim [mailto:bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org
> <bldg-sim-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org>] *On Behalf Of *Joe Huang via
> Bldg-sim
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 09, 2016 2:41 AM
> *To:* bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Bldg-sim] Fwd: Re: Cost of climate file
>
>
>
> There are two IWEC2 weather file for Zurich (CHE_ZUERICH-METEOSCHWEI_066600_IW2
> and CHE_ZURICH-KLOTEN_066700_IW2).
>
>
>
> IWEC2 (International Weather for Energy Calculations) weather files were developed in a 4-year ASHRAE project utilizing actual weather reports from thousands of stations
>
> throughout the world going back 25 years, and covers locations outside of the United States and Canada. The entire set of 3,012 IWEC2 weather files is
>
> available on a DVD from ASHRAE (see link here <https://www.ashrae.org/resources--publications/bookstore/iwec2> )
>
>
>
> Individual IWEC2 weather files are available online from White BoxTechnologies, Inc. in various formats (BINM for DOE-2, EPW for EnergyPlus,
>
> etc.), as well as country sets or even the entire IWEC2 collection. For a complete list of all IWEC2 stations, see here <http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt>. For a map view of the IWEC2 stations in Google Maps,
>
> see here <http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/map-IWEC2>
>
>
>
>
>
> Joe
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>
>
> Joe Huang
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> White Box Technologies, Inc.
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>
> http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data
>
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> On 11/8/2016 4:42 PM, Vikram Sami via Bldg-sim wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for an EPW climate file for Zurich Switzerland. I also find
> that every now and then we have the need for simulation climate files that
> aren’t readily available in EPW format
>
>
>
> I know there have been a few discussions on this site about
> services/software programs that do this for you.
>
>
>
> What does it cost? And what is the process for creating one of these
> files?
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
> Vikram
>
>
>
> Vikram Sami, AIA, BEMP, LEED AP BD+C
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