<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">REM Rate uses a delta T over area HDD/CDD calculation-- not an hourly simulation, so peak loads can not be truly addressed. You could to derive an average number by calculating the annual use then dividing by hours of year, but that still would not solve your problem.</font></font><div>
<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">You could use eQuest, Energy Plus, TRNSYS or Sunrel.</font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I advise Energy Plus. <br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Greg Landreth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gwlandreth@frontierassoc.com">gwlandreth@frontierassoc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal">My company has identified a need to estimate peak demand information for homes that have been inspected by HERS raters and are modeled in REM/Rate. We are not HERS providers or sub-licensed raters, so we do not own or currently use REM/Rate ourselves. I understand that REM/Rate employs a seasonal methodology that does not predict hourly values, so I have a two-part question:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p><u></u><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>Despite the lack of hourly simulation values, is there a way to derive peak demand information (e.g. given a definition of ‘peak’) using REM/Rate?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>I’m interested to know whether anybody has experience creating input files for other simulation software (any software that does residential modeling and provides 8760 output) from REM/Rate .blg files.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">Greg Landreth<u></u><u></u></p>
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