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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Joe, you aren’t performing “p-RCx energy models” very often?<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">But seriously Arunabha, the magnitude of RCx savings for a facility may not be a high percentage of the total usage – although the measures are low-cost and
quick payback – energy modeling used as part of RCx should try to use actual weather data if possible or else the variances due to weather might be the same magnitude as the RCMs if you are attempting any significant level of calibration for the model.<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">However you should then run the proposed case with typical weather in order to model an “expected” annual savings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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to get started and see if you should continue using the model for this purpose.<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";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Joe Huang [mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:43 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Arunabha Sau; David Eldridge; equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Fwd: Composition of weather file data<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's inevitable that the peak conditions will fluctuate from year to year, that's just the chaotic nature of the weather. If you
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use a "typical year" weather file, you will tend to get, but not necessarily, an average annual peak, since the months have been selected to best match the long-term distribution of temperatures, humidity, solar, wind speed, etc.
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What is pre-RCx ? "pre retro-commissioning"? What is that? Too many adjectives for me :-)
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In any case, if you're modeling an existing building to assess its historical performance, I would definitely use actual year weather files.
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As for where to find such data, there's a proliferation of sources on the Web, although most would require processing to turn them into formats required by simulation programs such as eQUEST, etc.
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On 2/11/2014 4:09 AM, Arunabha Sau wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">Thanks Joe & David. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">Appreciate your explanation. It was very through.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">In an EPW file, I saw only 1990's data, so I was worried about the peak if the typical years's data would be different or so! I was modeling for pre-RCx. So, I was more concerned
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">For Cx modeling, do you guys make model out of these weather file or make a more customized weather file from some online available weather file source or buy one?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#000066">Aru<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#000066">Texas Aggie '10</span></i>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.</span></i><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red"> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red">- Albert Einstein </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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