Prerequisites for Weather Service import:

1. Import permission is required (User Properties/Permissions tab, Other Settings Application object) for the EnergyCAP user importing weather data.
2. Bill Import must also appear in the list of installed EnergyCAP modules (click Help/Piracy Protection/Info to display the System Information window). If Bill Import is NOT installed, contact EnergyCAP to update your EnergyCAP Maintenance Agreement.

Import Procedure

In EnergyCAP, just click Setup/Weather Stations. The Weather Station Manager will be displayed. Then click the Import Readings icon and select From Web. EnergyCAP will connect to the weather database, validate your user number and weather data subscription, and import all missing mean daily temperature data for all subscribed stations.

NOTES:

1. Subscription to the weather service is included in your EnergyCAP Maintenance Agreement.
2. Weather data can be automatically imported daily, weekly or monthly via a Windows scheduled task. See the Weather Task section of External Tasks in EnergyCAP for more information.
3. Most weather stations in the weather data database have daily data beginning around 1/1/1995.
4. The weather data database is updated on a daily basis, by 11:00 ET.  All data points are meteorologist-verified by AccuWeather.com. This is an advantage over capturing “raw,” albeit free, data from government sources.
5. The import process will populate all empty days beginning on the most recent populated day and forward.  The importer does not skip backwards over existing data and search for prior empty days, so if you have manually entered 2007, it will not skip backwards and populate 1995 through 2006.  If you want to capture prior data in this scenario, you should simply delete the weather station (this will delete all daily data), re-create a new empty station, and then import the data.
6. A time stamp of 11:00 am local time is assumed because the mean daily temperature is assumed to occur at 11 am.