heating and cooloing degree days

Apr 30, 2008 9 Replies

does anybody use heating or cooling degree days for building management here?


Use them for estimated heating/cooling costs.

russ posted for all of us...

Where?

Do you know where people typically get their degree days from, particularly in the US?

I'm particularly interested because my company just launched a free site for generating degree days at

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Most of the degree days on offer at our site are for US weather stations, but a lot of other countries are pretty well represented.

I quit trying as the fuel costs are not stable anyway.

I've just had a new furnace/a-c installed (94+AFUE) to replace my 20 year old, oversized monster. Prior to that, I had created a spreadsheet tracking my gas usage, heating degree days, cost per therm, etc. etc.

I have 3 years of data, and now I can see (a) reduced gas usage, (b) savings, no. of cu ft/therm, etc., etc.

HankG

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