Dear Robert,
Your observations of those limitations are all correct from my perspective. We may be adding demand ratchets to a future version of SAM. We are releasing a new version of SAM later today with two major improvements to the electricity rates model: There are now four metering options to handle net metering and feed-in tariffs, and the rate and demand structure inputs and results are now tables rather than large numbers of individual variables to make it easier to analyze the data.
Best regards,
Paul.
Best regards,
Paul.