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<p>A correction, followed by a rant about free weather data on the
Web :-)</p>
<p>doe2.com is the web site for eQUEST and is completely unrelated
to DOE. The weather files on the doe2.com server are largely, if
not entirely, obtained from the LBNL server used for DOE-2
development from the 1980s-2000s. These weather files were
accumulated at LBNL while carrying out various research projects,
mostly in the 1980s-1990s, in which I was quite involved. In
those days, we assumed that weather files would be unavailable and
budgeted for creating them from raw data. For example, the list of
available stations for Asia (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://doe2.com/Download/Weather/NON-US/asia-sp.txt">http://doe2.com/Download/Weather/NON-US/asia-sp.txt</a> ) contains 5
Chinese locations created for my sabbatical there, 5 Pakistani
locations created for a World Bank project, and 5 Southeast Asian
locations created for an USAID ASEAN project (which is why there
is Jakarta), all done in the 1980s. Similarly, the 3 locations in
Mexico were created for an USAID project I had there in the early
1990s. For some regions such as Europe, Australia, the Middle
East, the files were contributed by Visiting Scholars, which
explains why the selections might seem querky and uneven.<br>
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<p>I have no objections to doe2.com hosting these weather files, and
actually think it's a service since the LBNL server has been
offline for at least 5 years. However, one of the unintended
consequences in having free weather files online is that it
fosters the mentality that weather files ought to be free and
disposable. <br>
However, as anyone who has ever tried can attest, creating a
usable weather file from raw data takes quite a bit of effort.
All the free weather files hosted on various web sites were all
subsidized in some way, either by the government such as DOE for
NREL to develop the TMYs, an university for academic research or
by a research institute as part of a larger project, as I had
described earlier. Outside of these circumstances, efforts to
develop weather files, even by nonprofit organizations such as
ASHRAE, has to be recovered in some fashion. The best analogy I
have would be with books. I have yet to see someone asking for a
book on some technical topic and expecting it to be free. <br>
</p>
<p>Now I like free stuff as much as anyone, and don't begrudge the
free TMYs, CWECs, etc. floating around (in fact, I actually hosted
many of these on my Web site). But if you can't find what you
want among the free stuff, or if you prefer something more
up-to-date (the majority of the non-US files on the doe2.com or
the EnergyPlus weather web sites are at least 15 years old),
please don't rule out paying for it.</p>
<p>Joe<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The DOE has some non-USA weather data in
BIN format here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">the data is older – Jakarta file appears to
be 19878.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">you can convert to EPW as described here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] EPW file for Jakarta<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Where can I find an EPW file for Jakarta,
Indonesia? I looked on the Energyplus site and couldn’t fine
one.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></p>
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