Dear Dietmar,
For Question 1, I am not sure I understand what you mean by "tell SAM all turbine fractions by hour." Do you mean that you want to provide SAM with the turbine generation data as an input? You can do that using the Generic System model: If you have a column of hourly (or subhourly) generation data, you can provide that as input. That makes it possible to use your own power generation data with one of SAM's financial models. (Note that this is possible with the Generic system model, not the CSP generic model). Otherwise, in SAM's CSP models, it is not possible to modify the turbine output fraction input variable except using the input variables on the Thermal Storage page. There, it is only possible to provide up to nine turbine output fractions: It is not possible to provide hourly fractions.
SAM's solar performance models support hourly and subhourly simulations up to one minute time resolution. Results for the CSP models should be reasonable up to 10-minute or 15-minute data. You can use the SAM CSV weather file format for subhourly data. For a description of the format, see SAM's help system. You can also find examples of the file format in the solar_resource folder of your SAM installation.
Best regards,
Paul.