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OpenStudio provides some basic capabilities to parse the EPW and return data in a couple different forms. I don't have a great example of the usage, but here is a link to the unit test that demonstrates (kind of) what can be done:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/develop/openstudiocore/ruby/openstudio/utilities/test/EpwFile_Test.rb

You can access individual rows in the file, most of the header content, and you can get OpenStudio time series objects for the data.

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OpenStudio provides some basic capabilities to parse the EPW and return data in a couple different forms. I don't have a great example of the usage, but here is a link to the unit test that demonstrates (kind of) what can be done:done using the Ruby bindings:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/develop/openstudiocore/ruby/openstudio/utilities/test/EpwFile_Test.rb

You can access individual rows in the file, most of the header content, and you can get OpenStudio time series objects for the data.

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OpenStudio provides some basic capabilities to parse the EPW and return data in a couple different forms. I don't have a great example of the usage, but here here is a link to the unit test that demonstrates (kind of) what can be done using the Ruby bindings:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/blob/develop/openstudiocore/ruby/openstudio/utilities/test/EpwFile_Test.rbbindings.

You can access individual rows in the file, most of the header content, and you can get OpenStudio time series objects for the data. columns.