[esp-r] Re: Converting weather file to EPW

[Dru Crawley]

If you want ESP-r's native CLM, EPW and Daysim files for more locations,
try  http://climate.onebuilding.org

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Andrew Cowie <andrew.cowie at strath.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Hi Tomonori,
>
>
>
> An EPW file is a plain text document.  “plain text document” (usually)
> refers to an ACSII file (as opposed to a binary file).  An EPW file is just
> a particular way of arranging ASCII data, so that programs know how to
> interpret it.  For example, the top line of an EPW file should look
> something like this:
>
>
>
> LOCATION,Chicago Ohare Intl Ap,IL,USA,TMY3,725300,41.98,-87.92,-6.0,201.0
>
>
>
> You should be fine to use the file as it is!
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andy Cowie
>
>
>
> *From:* esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [mailto:esp-r-bounces at lists.
> strath.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Maki
> *Sent:* 24 April 2018 13:38
> *To:* esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
> *Subject:* [esp-r] Converting weather file to EPW
>
>
>
> Dear all
>
> I have downloaded weather data from EnergyPlus. Even though I selected
> download as EPW, however it came as ‘plain text document’. Please let me
> know how to convert the text file to epw, so I can use it to the
> simulation.
>
>
>
> Best regards
>
> Tomonori Makita
>
>
>
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