This will likely end up as an issue on either OpenStudio or EnergyPlus github. I just don't know which, so I'm asking here.
When I setup LifeCycleCosts objects in OpenStudio, I noticed that the LifeCycleCost:UsePriceEscalation isn't taken into account for my electricity usage.
What OpenStudio Loads into my model is the LifeCycleCost:UsePriceEscalation from the E+ datasets. For eg:
LifeCycleCost:UsePriceEscalation,
U.S. Avg Residential-Electricity, !- Name
Electricity, !- Resource
2011, !- Escalation Start Year
January, !- Escalation Start Month
0.9894, !- Year Escalation 1
0.9950, !- Year Escalation 2
[...]
LifeCycleCost:UsePriceEscalation,
U.S. Avg Residential-Natural gas, !- Name
NaturalGas, !- Resource
2011, !- Escalation Start Year
January, !- Escalation Start Month
0.9733, !- Year Escalation 1
0.9666, !- Year Escalation 2
[...]
When I look at the eplusout.html, table "Present Value for Recurring, Nonrecurring and Energy Costs (Before Tax)",
for NaturalGas, I see it's taking them into account as I can use the discount rate I entered and the values for the escalation rate for NaturalGas and recreate the (net) Present Value in the table.
For electricity, it's ignoring the escalation rates. I also see that it's reported as "ElectricityPurchased", might be part of the problem.
