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There are a few potential ways to approach. To see the list of 'standard US holidays'. eQuest > Project & Site (tab) > Standard US Holidays (in the tree) this will open a 'Holiday Properties' tab. Right click on the field for 'Holiday Types' and go to the help files. Then on the entry for 'OFFICIAL-US ' click on 'Table 12' hyperlink to see the list of US holidays. This provides a list of holidays, but may not be all that you need in that sometimes a holiday is on Saturday/Sunday; It'll get you close though.

For Run time on loops specifically, Report PS-D has the loop Load and Flow rate broken into 10% increments for the hours at that %. For equipment, PS-C is similar. (Multiplying Hours) x the (bucket average) and sum all of these would get you close (ex: if there are 2000 hours where the flow is between 20-20%, 2000 hrs x 25% = 500 full load hours (roughly).

Third alternative would be to use an hourly report for the loop load, then normalize that to the design load of the loop and sum all 8760 up.

All 3 would get you probably close enough to what is needed. I'd personally advocate for approach #2 or #3;Its math based, can be updated in excel easily/fast, and is semi-self documenting (with some explanation)