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JRR wrote;<br>
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I have a very advanced solar house. I have 2x6 walls with foam
sheathing, 100% brick vernier,<br>
2 inch thick XPS Styro down to 4 ft below basement floor with a 4 ft
deep 57s gravel catch,<br>
asymetric soffits ( widest on South side ), two speed heat pump,
active closed loop solar thermal<br>
for DHW and on poor solar days the closed loop solar goes into the
basement slab in winter.<br>
I could go on about the features...........<br>
<br>
The Problem is that my Virginia Electric Utility Company is rotten!!!
The July bill for 2007 has<br>
a different number of billing days than the 2008 bill !!! other little
gotch yaz reduce the usefulness<br>
of utility bill based energy data to **** ( insert your favorite terms
) They now include relative<br>
use statistics from month to month with the bills but there is no way
to take their data to compare the same month ( same Sun angles and
relative climate ) from one year to another. This means they've got
the HDDs<br>
and CDDs for each billing cycle but they won't tell me directly. I
have to go to the VA state climate<br>
office to find out. SO bottom line, if you want to sort out a building
and really tune it up you have to<br>
take your own electric / gas / whatever else meter readings everyday.<br>
<br>
It's all worth it in the end though. After an 18% rate hike this July I
blew off all the houses on my block.<br>
They're all smaller and two story with basement. I'm bigger with one
story and finished walkout basement.<br>
The best one had a bill $93 higher than mine, the worst got nailed
$195 more.... nobody is laughing at me<br>
anymore. I use Energy-10 for small buildings, Energy Plus and custom
FORTRAN programs I wrote<br>
for more involved projects.<br>
<br>
John R Ross III PE.<br>
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Eric O'Neill wrote:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Francisco,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I
tried once to model a home and wasn’t overly successful
replicating my energy bills. That’s not to say it can’t be done,
but I don’t think that’s what eQuest was designed for. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www2.aud.ucla.edu/energy-design-tools/">HEED was
specifically
designed for homes</a>, and has a fairly user friendly interface.
Again, I don’t
have much experience modeling homes, but I think you might be better
off
starting there. I’m also copying the Building Simulation list to see if
anyone there has anything better to say on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Eric</span><span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org">mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Francisco
Rodriguez-Ema<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 05, 2008 8:26 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] Single-Family Residence<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 0.5in;">Is equest effective for single-family
homes energy
modelling?<o:p></o:p></p>
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