Heliostat field graph

Good morning.

I have seen [Dr. Mike Wagner] youtube video explaining the molten salt solar tower model. He showed us a great Heliostat graph (see attachment)

I tried to get a graph like this in SAM but I couldn't.

Then I figured it out later that SOLARPILOT can do that!

Is there any way to couple SAM with SolarPolot?

Hello,

SAM runs SolarPILOT for the heliostat optimization on the Heliostat Field page. SAM does not provide access to all of SolarPILOT's features.

You can run SolarPILOT as a separate application. For more about that, please see:

www.nrel.gov/csp/solarpilot-background.html

Best regards,
Paul.