{"id":69188,"date":"2014-12-17T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=34d8b27500cf5a773345cbcf6378da0d"},"modified":"2014-12-17T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T09:36:14","slug":"choosing-a-base-temperature-for-degree-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/choosing-a-base-temperature-for-degree-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Base Temperature for Degree Days"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    This reference point is important when using degree days for energy consumption analysis        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/choosing-base-temperature-degree-days\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/balance-degree-day-base-temperature.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Base temperature is the balance temperature\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Degree days are a combination of time and temperature. We looked at their uses and where they come from in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/calculating-heating-degree-days\" title=\"Part 1 of this series\">Part 1 of this series<\/a>, and now it&#8217;s time to go a little deeper.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature enters as a temperature difference, &Delta;T (delta T), but it&#8217;s not the &Delta;T between inside and outside of the building. It&#8217;s the difference between the outdoor temperature and the base temperature. But what is this thing called base temperature?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/blogs\/dept\/building-science\/choosing-base-temperature-degree-days\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10289,12892,12855,5643,12893,5920,12424],"class_list":["post-69188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-cooling","tag-degree-day","tag-hdd","tag-heating-and-cooling","tag-heating-degree-day","tag-space-heating","tag-temperature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}