Energy cost Output variable

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Hi Jason,

Thanks for the feedback. I indeed went through the monthly report after setting up the UtilityCost:Tariff object and this is a useful report to read demand and utility charges when playing just with few runs. I guess a cell mapping function can do it easily to report the cells value to a master spreadsheet.

When it comes to run parametric analysis with JePlus, the only way I found to report results was through the variable:output object, and unfortunately I don't know how to report the cost variable. Do you have any turnaround tips by any chance?

I have peak, mid and off peak utility electricity rates on top of demand charge. The easy way would be to apply the mid-peak utility charges to the overall energy use as a post process in a spreadsheet, but this is a very quick shortcut.

The request to have real time cost looks very very helpful...Do you know if the next version of E+ will have this request embedded? Thanks for redirecting me to this.

Thanks,

Olivier.

jEPlus can extract results from the tabular reports so that you can get these answers directly from the Tariff Report. The jEPlus manual talks about it here in Section 5.5 and unmethours answers it here. I do not believe the next version of EnergyPlus will include that request.

Thanks again. This is exactly what I was looking for. I've finally been able to extract the energycost from the .rvx file which seemed to not be recognized by the software at first hand. Had to restart, and it worked just fine, after fixing a missing commas! For reference for future use, I am still attaching below the .rvx file. Olivier

{ "rvis": [ { "fileName" : "DesiredOutput.rvi", "tableName" : "TestResults", "frequency" : "RunPeriod", "usedInCalc" : true } ],

"csvs": [
{
    "sourceCsv" : "eplustbl.csv",
    "fromReport" : "Annual Building Utility Performance Summary",
    "fromTable" : "EAp2-7. Energy Cost Summary",
    "fromColumn" : "Total Energy Cost [$]",
    "fromRow" : "Total",
    "tableName" : "Energy Cost",
    "columnHeaders" : "Total Annual Energy Cost [$]",
    "usedInCalc" : true
} 
]

}