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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">I am new to this forum. I have been reading the questions and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Arial">the</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> responses offered by experts and users. It is great to see the energy on this users forum. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">I am trying to model some commercial sites in South Africa. I am having a difficult time finding weather files for the two major South African cities - Cape Town and Johannesburg ….in the format that eQUEST accepts weather files.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">I was able to find EnergyPlus files on the EERE webpage</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weather_data3.cfm/region=1_africa_wmo_region_1/country=ZAF/cname=South%20Africa"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weather_data3.cfm/region=1_africa_wmo_region_1/country=ZAF/cname=South%20Africa</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Does eQUEST accept EnergyPlus files “as-is”? or do I have to use the converter “eQ_WthProc” available at</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://doe2.com/index_wth.html"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial">http://doe2.com/index_wth.html</FONT></U></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial"> ?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Anyone used this converter before and have some words of wisdom, because it is giving me errors. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">OR if anyone knows of a source where I can download the weather files for South Africa without having to worry or mess around with the format of the weather file?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Arial">Krish</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Krish Gomatom<BR>
Energy Efficiency & Demand Response Analytics<BR>
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)<BR>
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