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Utility and weather

Utility and weather

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Utility and weather

- [Instructor] The last thing to check out are the utilities and the weather output pertaining to the location of our building. Although I lamented at the beginning of the course that we can't use shared coordinates, the settings we altered in Green Building Studio got us close enough to the closest weather station. The objective of this video is to check out the utility settings and the local weather. Get into Green Building Studio, my projects, my projects in office. Now let's jump down to utility information. Here are the project default utility rates: cost 14 cents per kilowatt hour, fuel costs point 91 cents. Not much here, if we go to Utility Building data sets, solar radiation is unavailable, I guess. 2012, so you see how old this is. There's new utility data sets, we can download the tools or the Utility Data Set Template, but they're not going to find it because this is a pretty outdated part of Green Building Studio. I just wanted to bring you over to this just to kind of…

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