<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#b45f06">If I understood it correctly from one of my clients, Weather Analytics may be using a subscription model for their weather files. This would likely mean that you must be a high volume weather file user in order to make it economical.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Andrew Corney via Bldg-sim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Nick,</div><div><br></div><div>Weather analytics do still provide weather files for the industry and Sefaira uses their epw files for our EnergyPlus analysis where other information is not available. </div><div><br></div><div>That said I echo your sentiments that Joe is great at responding to questions on this forum and it's greatly appreciated by the industry. </div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew<br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">--<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Andrew Corney<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Product Director<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sefaira - Sustainability. Performance. Design.</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Mobile: <a href="tel:+44%20(0)7887%20059%20722" target="_blank">+44 (0)7887 059 722</a></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Skype: andrew.corney.sefaira</span></p></div></div></div><span class=""><div><br>On Nov 11, 2016, at 9:10 PM, Nicholas Caton via Bldg-sim <<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.<wbr>org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div></span><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">As someone with zero financial interests in any of the mentioned weather service companies, and as a consumer who has used these services (and also practiced a fair bit of composing/vetting my own weather
files from raw data): <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I think it speaks volumes and is worth highlighting that one of the owners of these service companies seems to contribute to/answer 99% of the questions posed about weather data sources and how to manipulate
them, both this in forum and elsewhere.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">Thanks Joe, for your pro bono services to our community, as well as the paid ones!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I’m also comfortable recommending WBT’s services to new and experienced simulators alike.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:windowtext">I should also insert Weather Analytics (a service I used to frequently recommend) shifted into new management/markets in the last year or so, and I don’t believe they service the “building energy simulation
sector” any more in the way they used to. If anyone has experience to the contrary and has been able to do business with them in recent months I’d be keen to hear about it!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="color:windowtext"> Bldg-sim [<a href="mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">mailto:bldg-sim-bounces@<wbr>lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joe Huang via Bldg-sim<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 09, 2016 2:41 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Bldg-sim] Fwd: Re: Cost of climate file<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There are two IWEC2 weather file for Zurich (CHE_ZUERICH-METEOSCHWEI_<wbr>066600_IW2 and CHE_ZURICH-KLOTEN_066700_IW2).
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IWEC2 (International Weather for Energy Calculations) weather files were developed in a 4-year ASHRAE project utilizing actual weather reports from thousands of stations<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">throughout the world going back 25 years, and covers locations outside of the United States and Canada. The entire set of 3,012 IWEC2 weather files is<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">available on a DVD from ASHRAE (see link <a href="https://www.ashrae.org/resources--publications/bookstore/iwec2" target="_blank">here</a> )<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Individual IWEC2 weather files are available online from White BoxTechnologies, Inc. in various formats (BINM for DOE-2, EPW for EnergyPlus,<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">etc.), as well as country sets or even the entire IWEC2 collection. For a complete list of all IWEC2 stations, see <a href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt" target="_blank">here</a>. For a map view of the IWEC2 stations in Google Maps,<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<pre><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">see <a href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/map-IWEC2" target="_blank">here</a> <u></u><u></u></span></pre>
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<pre>Joe Huang <u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.<u></u><u></u></pre>
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<pre><a href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">http://weather.<wbr>whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather data<u></u><u></u></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am looking for an EPW climate file for Zurich Switzerland. I also find that every now and then we have the need for simulation climate files that aren’t readily available in EPW format
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<p class="MsoNormal">I know there have been a few discussions on this site about services/software programs that do this for you.
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<p class="MsoNormal">What does it cost? And what is the process for creating one of these files?
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance<u></u><u></u></p>
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