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CityBES: City Building Energy Saver

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    City Building Energy Saver (CityBES) is a web-based data and computing platform, focusing on energy modeling and analysis of a city's building stock to support district or city-scale efficiency programs. CityBES uses an international open data standard, CityGML, to represent and exchange 3D city models. CityBES employs EnergyPlus to simulate building energy use and savings from energy efficient retrofits. CityBES provides a suite of features for urban planners, city energy managers, building owners, utilities, energy consultants and researchers.

    Expertise Required: 

    No special experience required.

    Audience: 

    urban planners, city energy managers, building owners, utilities, energy consultants and researchers

    Input: 

    Users select buildings and ECMs to model or evaluate, enter utility cost and incentives or rebates.

    Output: 

    Many building performance metrics including energy use, end uses, peak demand, equipment capacity, EUI, GHG, cost, payback, PV potential, water use.

    Strengths: 

    A free user friendly web app modeling urban buildings using detailed EnergyPlus models. Excellent 3D GIS visualization.

    Country: 
    USA
    Major Capabilities: 
    Whole Building Energy Simulation
    Energy Conservation Measures
    Building Energy Benchmarking
    Building Type: 
    Commercial
    Residential
    Multi Family
    Portfolio Scale
    District Scale
    Urban Scale
    Keywords: 
    EnergyPlus
    OpenStudio
    Language: 
    English
    Platform: 
    Web/Saas
    Pricing: 
    Free
    Help and Support: 
    Free Email Support
    Last Software Update: 
    28 December 2018
    Last Entry Update: 
    28 December 2018
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