[Bldg-sim] Need to extract summer peak demand info from REM/Rate

[CleanTech Analytics]

REM Rate uses a delta T over area HDD/CDD calculation-- not an hourly
simulation, so peak loads can not be truly addressed. You could to derive
an average number by calculating the annual use then dividing by hours of
year, but that still would not solve your problem.

You could use eQuest, Energy Plus, TRNSYS or Sunrel.

I advise Energy Plus.

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Greg Landreth <gwlandreth at frontierassoc.com
> wrote:

> My company has identified a need to estimate peak demand information for
> homes that have been inspected by HERS raters and are modeled in REM/Rate.
> We are not HERS providers or sub-licensed raters, so we do not own or
> currently use REM/Rate ourselves. I understand that REM/Rate employs a
> seasonal methodology that does not predict hourly values, so I have a
> two-part question:****
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> **1.       **Despite the lack of hourly simulation values, is there a way
> to derive peak demand information (e.g. given a definition of ‘peak’) using
> REM/Rate?****
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> **2.       **I’m interested to know whether anybody has experience
> creating input files for other simulation software (any software that does
> residential modeling and provides 8760 output) from REM/Rate .blg files.**
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> Thanks!****
>
> Greg Landreth****
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