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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">A similar effort is currently underway (managed by DOE and Federal Labs) called OpenEI, with a sister site called VIBE:
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<p><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">“</span>Open Energy Information (OpenEI) is a knowledge-sharing online community dedicated to connecting people with the latest information and data on energy resources from
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">For example, the E+ files used to generate savings predictions for General Merchandise and Grocery market segments have been uploaded here.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It’s an “Angie’s List” approach to crowd-sourcing where registered users can post content, rate content posted by others, and contribute. I have used the community
editable rate repository (<a href="http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway:Utilities">http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway:Utilities</a>) in to help me gut-check atleast the generation side of my modeling tariffs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Nothing to prevent users from uploading and sharing data sets (models?) of any sort to the community at large.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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""> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Anthony Hardman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 11, 2011 11:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Arpan Bakshi'; 'equest-users'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] INP PD2 Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hey Arpan, sample input files are a great idea. Could you post these the Onebuilding
<a href="http://onebuilding.org/wiki/doku.php/start">Wiki</a>, perhaps with a narrative? If you look in the “usersGuides” directory, Nick has posted a great How-To lesson that might be appropriate for what you’re trying to accomplish. Someone correct me if
I’m wrong but I think part of the vision for the wiki is to have a more detailed/user friendly source of info for commonly asked questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<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""> equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Arpan Bakshi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 11, 2011 8:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> equest-users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] INP PD2 Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm conducting some what of an experiment in the social networking we all engage in through these mailing lists. I hypothesize that if we had a library of eQUEST models available for anyone to download and comment on then eventually there
would be peer-reviewed, tried and tested templates for various system and use types we could agree on and refer to.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I will continue to update a library of .inp and .pd2 files for a few months to test out how useful such a library may or may not be. I have started the library with a test model you can try to download here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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