I assume that BEopt uses the National Residential Efficiency Measures Database for cost data, but cannot find anything to confirm this. If so, which version of the database is used, 3.0? BEopt was last updated in January 2017 but NREMD was updated to 3.1 in January 2018. Is there an updated release coming anytime soon?
The cost data in BEopt 2.8 is consistent with the data from NREMD v3.1.
BEopt 3.0.1 beta also appears to use NREMDB v3.1, which is rather old (2018) vs. the release of that package (2023). I assume a full BEopt 3 will include NREMDB v4.0 costs from 2023. It would be helpful if the provenance of cost data were documented in BEopt. ideally in multiple places e.g; the about dialog, the built-in docs, and especially the economics section of the Site Screen. The rationale of the latter is to make clear that the native cost estimates are in 20XY dollars. In fact, BEopt could throw a warning if the multipliers are all 1.0, meaning one is using unadjusted/stale costs,
Asked: 2018-07-24 13:47:47 -0600
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Last updated: Jul 26 '18
