Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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Typically, energy simulations are for a single year, so annual energy escalation wouldn't impact a single simulation. If you're trying to do a multi-year analysis of a flat rate tariff (as opposed to time-of-use), you can simply take the results from an annual simulation and increase the annual energy cost by 3% a year. A time-of-use rate increase would be more complicated, you would need to develop the entire time-of-use tariff using the UtilityCost:Tariff object. Alternatively, you can output hourly energy use for each fuel type and apply tariff rates manually in a spreadsheet.
