Annual water usage CSP

Hi NREL-Team, hi Paul,

the help file outlines that SAM reports the 'annual water usage' for a CSP system including cooling and washing water usage.

I cannot find this parameter in the SAM simulation results. Can you help me? I only found 'Cooling water makeup flow rate | (kg/hr)'

Thanks in advance

Thomas

Dear Thomas,

You are correct. Older versions of SAM reported an annual water usage value in cubic meters, but the current version of SAM only reports the hourly mass flow rate. We did not update the description in Help to reflect that change.

I will see if we can put that metric back in the results for a future version.

Best regards,
Paul.