<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">You might want to take the online eQuest course from </font></font>
<a href="http://energy-models.com/training/equest/course-objectives">http://energy-models.com/training/equest/course-objectives</a> <div><font>I found it to be very helpful when learning eQuest.</font></div><div><font><br>
</font></div><div><font>I would guess your issue is occupancy differences, or deep in the HVAC system like Morgan suggests..<br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Morgan Heater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:morgan@ecotope.com">morgan@ecotope.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I would take a look at your unmet load hours in the perimeter spaces. If<br>
they're high it's likely that you have a heating air flow rate or supply<br>
air temperature issue.<br>
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Morgan Heater, P.E.<br>
BEMP, LEED AP<br>
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Subject: [Bldg-sim] EQUEST QUESTION<br>
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I am trying to learn E-Quest and I am trying to model a building that I<br>
have already modeled with Energy Pro. The gas usage from E-Quest is<br>
very very low compared to both actual and Energy Pro. It is a hot water<br>
reheat VAV system with a boiler and a water cooled condenser. The<br>
actual gas use is 17891 Therms, from the bills. Energy Pro predicts<br>
17600 Therms. E-Quest predicts 580 Therms. This makes no sense to me,<br>
but it is clearly my error. I have gone over the inputs several times.<br>
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Is there anything that occurs to anybody that would make gas usage that<br>
far off?<br>
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Electrical from E-Quest is 453 MWh. Electrical from Energy Pro is 422<br>
MWh. Electrical actual is 543 MWh. The building has lots of<br>
unaccounted-for process equipment, so I'm not so worried about being low<br>
on electrical. It's not too far off. But the gas use is just way too<br>
low. Hot water is showing up at 3 Therms a month.<br>
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This is the first model I have done with E-Quest, so I apologize for<br>
even asking. It's obviously something stupid that I have done.<br>
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