[Equest-users] Source Energy vs. Site Energy

kandarp Patel kpatwork at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 17:18:55 PDT 2010


Portfolio Manager has great information on this. Brian is spot on in his
description. You can google Portfolio Manager and FAQs.

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Brian Fountain <bfountain at greensim.com>wrote:

> Site energy is what your utility meter would read -- it is the energy used
> on the site.
>
> Source energy takes into account energy loss for production and
> transmission -- so it is the raw energy entering the power plant.  Your site
> to source conversion for electricity depends on your electrical generation
> source.  Recall that most thermal electric generating stations are ~33%
> efficient ("Carnot efficient"?) in terms of electricity out over fuel in.
>
> On 8/29/2010 11:09 AM, Charles Welch wrote:
>
>   This may be a dumb question,
> but...
>
> What is the difference between "Source Energy" and "Site Energy" as
> generated in the reports?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles Welch
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