<html><head><base href="x-msg://3620/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jim,<div><br></div><div>Just FYI if this is a LEED model you should check out the District Energy Modelling Requirements from the USGBC (<a href="http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=7671">http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=7671</a>). By modelling as purchased steam you are limiting the number of EAc1 points available. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 2012-03-14, at 10:25 AM, Jim Paulino wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I've inherited an energy model that was done over 3 years ago by someone no longer at our firm.<br>I'm an eQuest novice and have a question about a system that uses campus steam for heating.<br>The original model was set up with two gas fired boilers. (I see this in the Component Tree tab in the Water-Side HVAC section)<br>How do I tell eQuest that the heating is from a campus/purchased steam system so that it complies with ASHRAE 90.1-2004 item G3.1.1.1, Purchased Heat which requires the campus utility rate to be used?<br><br><div><span name="x"></span><div class="Section1"><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><span></span><table class="MsoNormalTable" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="366" style="width: 274.45pt; "><tbody><tr style="height: 25pt; "><td width="223" style="padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; width: 167.1pt; height: 25pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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