[Bldg-sim] [Equest-users] Single-Family Residence

[JRR]

JRR wrote;

I have a very advanced solar house. I have 2x6 walls with foam 
sheathing, 100% brick vernier,
2 inch thick XPS Styro down to 4 ft below basement floor with a 4 ft 
deep 57s gravel catch,
asymetric soffits ( widest on South side ),  two speed heat pump, active 
closed loop solar thermal
for DHW and on poor solar days the closed loop solar goes into the 
basement slab in winter.
I could go on about the features...........

The Problem is that my Virginia Electric Utility Company is rotten!!!  
The July bill for 2007 has
a different number of billing days than the 2008 bill !!!  other little 
gotch yaz  reduce the usefulness
of utility bill based energy data to  **** ( insert your favorite terms 
)  They now include relative
use statistics from month to month with the bills but there is no way to 
take their data to compare the same month ( same Sun angles and relative 
climate ) from one year to another.  This means they've got the HDDs
and CDDs for each billing cycle but they won't tell me directly.  I have 
to go to the VA state climate
office to find out.  SO bottom line, if you want to sort out a building 
and really tune it up you have to
take your own electric / gas / whatever else meter readings everyday.

It's all worth it in the end though. After an 18% rate hike this July I 
blew off all the houses on my block.
They're all smaller and two story with basement. I'm bigger with one 
story and finished walkout basement.
The best one had a bill  $93 higher than mine, the worst got nailed $195 
more.... nobody is laughing at me
anymore.  I use Energy-10 for small buildings, Energy Plus and custom 
FORTRAN programs I wrote
for more involved projects.

John R Ross III PE.

Eric O'Neill wrote:
>
> Francisco,
>
>  
>
> I tried once to model a home and wasn't overly successful replicating 
> my energy bills. That's not to say it can't be done, but I don't think 
> that's what eQuest was designed for. HEED was specifically designed 
> for homes <http://www2.aud.ucla.edu/energy-design-tools/>, and has a 
> fairly user friendly interface. Again, I don't have much experience 
> modeling homes, but I think you might be better off starting there. 
> I'm also copying the Building Simulation list to see if anyone there 
> has anything better to say on the subject.
>
>  
>
> Eric
>
> *From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org 
> [mailto:equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Francisco Rodriguez-Ema
> *Sent:* Friday, September 05, 2008 8:26 AM
> *To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
> *Subject:* [Equest-users] Single-Family Residence
>
>  
>
> Is equest effective for single-family homes energy modelling?
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