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Standard Energy Efficiency Data (SEED) Platform™ is a web-based application that helps organizations easily manage data on the energy performance of large groups of buildings.
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BETTER integration #2657

Closed adrian-lara closed 3 years ago

adrian-lara commented 3 years ago

The BETTER team is separately working on the backend changes needed in the BETTER application.

In the meantime, SEED can likely take steps to prepare for that. These steps need to be scoped out before implementing.

adrian-lara commented 3 years ago

Capturing/summarizing separate discussions: SEED will provide BETTER with meters that have start and end date-times. BETTER is able to take those and standardized them into calendarized monthly readings on its own. SEED won't have to do any extra work from that aspect.

Also, the eventual list of supported meter types for the BETTER integration are as follows. We'll support a subset of these to start and build incrementally going forward:

    ELECTRIC_GRID = "Electric - Grid"
    ELECTRIC_SOLAR = "Electric - Solar"
    ELECTRIC_WIND = "Electric - Wind"
    NATURAL_GAS = "Natural Gas"
    DIESEL = "Diesel"
    PROPANE = "Propane"
    COAL_ANTHRACITE = "Coal (anthracite)"
    COAL_BITUMINOUS = "Coal (bituminous)"
    COKE = "Coke"
    FUEL_OIL_1 = "Fuel Oil (No. 1)"
    FUEL_OIL_2 = "Fuel Oil (No. 2)"
    FUEL_OIL_4 = "Fuel Oil (No. 4)"
    FUEL_OIL_5_AND_6 = "Fuel Oil (No. 5 and No. 6)"
    DISTRICT_STEAM = "District Steam"
    DISTRICT_HOT_WATER = "District Hot Water"
    DISTRICT_CHILLED_WATER_ELECTRIC = "District Chilled Water - Electric"
    DISTRICT_CHILLED_WATER_ABSORPTION = "District Chilled Water - Absorption"
    DISTRICT_CHILLED_WATER_ENGINE = "District Chilled Water - Engine"
    DISTRICT_CHILLED_WATER_OTHER = "District Chilled Water - Other"
    KEROSENE = "Kerosene"
    WOOD = "Wood"

FYI @RDmitchell @yroussev

yroussev commented 3 years ago

@adrian-lara thank you for the update. Once the link is operational we can test with @RDmitchell based on actual data for buildings that have ELECTRIC_GRID = "Electric - Grid" and NATURAL_GAS = "Natural Gas" as the energy sources.

RDmitchell commented 3 years ago

@nllong / @macintoshpie / @axelstudios -- Is there a sample file I can use to test? I started to try to create one in Portfolio Manager but it's so complicated to use that software (!). If there isn't a sample file, I will try to create one in ESPM.

aviveiros11 commented 3 years ago

@nllong / @macintoshpie / @axelstudios -- Is there a sample file I can use to test? I started to try to create one in Portfolio Manager but it's so complicated to use that software (!). If there isn't a sample file, I will try to create one in ESPM.

Hey @RDmitchell - instructions and example files can be found here under the supporting files section for testing. Note that some fields are required in order to run analyses!

RDmitchell commented 3 years ago

@aviveiros11 -- thanks Austin !! Right, I was trying to read the BETTER instructions about what to export from ESPM, so it's great that you have a sample file, although at some point I guess I need to get more familiar with BETTER and how to get ESPM files into it.

RDmitchell commented 3 years ago

@macintoshpie -- I am going to close this since we have a complete project for BETTER integration