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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Jeremiah and others, thanks for your comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>My second question is not whether, simply, to use an alternate software – I believe I will need to if we are to accomplish our objective. Rather, the situation is that the information I have to describe the homes I need to model are .blg files generated by HERS raters. Given that I may want to use an alternate simulation software, is anyone familiar with a tool that will take a REM/Rate .blg input file and convert it into an input file I could use for one of those alternate modeling software packages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greg Landreth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> CleanTech Analytics [mailto:jeremiah@cleantechanalytics.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 24, 2012 12:43 PM<br><b>To:</b> Greg Landreth<br><b>Cc:</b> bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] Need to extract summer peak demand info from REM/Rate<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#336666'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#336666'>You could use eQuest, Energy Plus, TRNSYS or Sunrel.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#336666'>I advise Energy Plus. </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Greg Landreth <<a href="mailto:gwlandreth@frontierassoc.com">gwlandreth@frontierassoc.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p>1.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>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?<o:p></o:p></p><p>2.<span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'>Greg Landreth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='color:#888888'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bldg-sim mailing list<br><a href="http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org" target="_blank">http://lists.onebuilding.org/listinfo.cgi/bldg-sim-onebuilding.org</a><br>To unsubscribe from this mailing list send a blank message to <a href="mailto:BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG">BLDG-SIM-UNSUBSCRIBE@ONEBUILDING.ORG</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#999999'>Jeremiah D. 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