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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi Tomonori,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">LOCATION,Chicago Ohare Intl Ap,IL,USA,TMY3,725300,41.98,-87.92,-6.0,201.0<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">You should be fine to use the file as it is!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Andy Cowie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk [mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Maki<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 24 April 2018 13:38<br>
<b>To:</b> esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] Converting weather file to EPW<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">Dear all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif"">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#212121">Best regards</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#212121">Tomonori Makita</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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