I was wondering if anyone has experience adding lifecycle costs to EnergyPlus for water consumption.
I was able to add water costs as a fuel using UtilityCost:Tariff object, but in that scenario it shows up under "Energy" instead of "Water" on the "Operating Cash Flow by Category (Witihout Escalation) " table which isn't ideal. Has anyone taken a different approach where they were able to populate the "Water" column?
Here is the table in question.
Here is the EnergyTable which feeds into the "Energy" column above. Notice that it does include water costs.
And here is my Tariff object.
UtilityCost:Tariff,
Water Tariff, !- Name
Water:Facility, !- Output Meter Name
UserDefined, !- Conversion Factor Choice
1, !- Energy Conversion Factor
, !- Demand Conversion Factor
, !- Time of Use Period Schedule Name
, !- Season Schedule Name
, !- Month Schedule Name
, !- Demand Window Length
0.0; !- Monthly Charge or Variable Name
UtilityCost:Charge:Simple,
WaterTariffEnergyCharge, !- Name
Water Tariff, !- Tariff Name
totalEnergy, !- Source Variable
Annual, !- Season
EnergyCharges, !- Category Variable Name
10.0; !- Cost per Unit Value or Variable Name
It may be bug, but I thought I'd see if anyone else had been successful with water lifecycle costs before I filed anything.
