[Equest-users] Weather File for Energy Model Calibration

Varkie C Thomas thomasv at iit.edu
Thu Mar 22 08:24:36 PDT 2012


Instructions for converting NCDC and EPW to DOE2 .bin files can be found in 
http://bepan.info/weather


----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Jones <cj at enersave.ca>
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2012 9:58 am
Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Weather File for Energy Model Calibration

> Go to the doe2 website and download the weather processors, 
> DOE22WeatherUtilities.zip and sq_WthProc_EPWtoDOE2bin.zip.
> You need to take an existing .bin file, convert it to a text file 
> with the .fmt format.  View the readme in 
> DOE22WeatherUtilities.zip.  You can use the 
> eQ_WthProc_EPWtoDOE2bin 
> program to convert EnergyPlus weather files to .bin format then 
> convert to .fmt for editing in a spreadsheet.  The fmtwth.f file 
> from 
> the DOE22 weather utliities zip file details the structure of the 
> .fmt file.
> 
> See http://doe2.com/download/Weather/
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:27 PM 21/03/2012, nirupama lakshminarasimhan wrote:
> >Hi Sudheera,
> >
> >Could you tell me how you created your custom weather file? And 
> how 
> >did you convert it to the .bin format?. I have not been able to 
> open 
> >the .bin files to look at their formats. But the rebate program 
> we 
> >are working on requires that we use the same weather file as 
> equest 
> >for a regression analysis for model calibration. Thank you.
> >
> >Sincerely
> >Nirupama Lakshminarasimhan
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