On E+A+A projects, CBECC won't let the user input a UEF rated water heater of any type when it's existing.. This should probably be updated during your team's E+A+A work since at some point in the near future a UEF will be an existing water heater for some projects.
This applies to both 2016 and 2019
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The standard and proposed are using different DHW calculations. So what should be 0 compliance is a penalty because the standard design for an altered 0.81 UEF is a 0.82 EF; and for a 0.60 UEF consumer storage the standard design is 0.60 EF. Danny Tam adds that the problem is using the new gas model compared against the old. Existing water heaters should use the new gas model too. Allow old EF as an input, and then internally CBECC convert the EF into UEF and use the new gas model. [NOTE: was going to edit comment added earlier today, but didn't see it. This combines that comment with Danny's.]
ruleset mods checked into SVN @ r1907