Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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The Xcel EDA Tariff Selection and Model Setup measure can be used to add energy cost to the outputs. Download the measure from the BCL to your My Measures directory which can be set from the Preferences menu in OpenStudio.
The utility rates used by the measure are contained in EnergyPlus IDF files (one for each tariff) located in the resources folder. These can be opened in EnergyPlus' IDF Editor or a text editor and changed to other utility rates. See the Economics section of the Input Output Reference for documentation of these objects.
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The Xcel EDA Tariff Selection and Model Setup measure can be used to add energy cost to the outputs. Download the measure from the BCL to your My Measures directory which can be set from the Preferences menu in OpenStudio.
The utility rates used by the measure are contained in EnergyPlus IDF files (one for each tariff) located in the resources folder. These can be opened in EnergyPlus' IDF Editor or a text editor and changed to other utility rates. See the Economics section of the Input Output Reference for documentation of these objects.
For example, the $0.11/kWh summer on peak rate from the Commercial.idf can be changed to reflect a different utility's tariff.
UtilityCost:Charge:Simple,
CommercialSummerOnPeakEnergyCharge, !- Name
Commercial, !- Tariff Name
peakEnergy, !- Source Variable
summer, !- Season
EnergyCharges, !- Category Variable Name
0.11; !- Cost per Unit Value or Variable Name
