Configuring Simulations |  |  |  |

The Configure Simulations page allows you to set up simulations for a range of analyses options.

To view the Configuring Simulations page:

• | Click the Configure Simulations button located under the navigation menu.

The available analysis options are:

• | Parametrics: Assign multiple values to one or more input variables. Allows you to compare systems with different component sizes, locations, and financing assumptions, and to plot graphs of output metrics over a range of input variable values.

• | Sensitivity: Examine how variation in one or more inputs affects the value of an output metric by assigning a range of variation to one or more input variables. Results are displayed in tornado graphs.

• | Optimization: Find the value of one or more input variables that maximizes or minimizes an output metric.

• | Statistical: Explore uncertainties in the inputs. Allows you to define a distribution for one or more input variables and runs multiple simulations using input values randomly picked according to the distribution.

• | Multiple Systems: Model a system as a combination of subsystems. For example, model a photovoltaic system that consists of arrays with different orientations.

• | Excel Exchange: Use Excel to store or calculate input variable values.