How to combine monthly load with specific electric usage?

Hi,

I need a bit of help because I don't know what the best way is to implement my data in SAM.

Let me first tell a bit about the context. So for my master's thesis I am investigating the best way to couple electric trucks with renewable energy of a PV-installation in a case study. The company that I work with for this case study has diesel trucks for the moment but I have to simulate scenario's in case of an electric fleet. I have all the necessary data of the PV-installation and I have the monthly energy usage of the building. For the scenario's that I want to simulate I have to add the energy required for charging the electric fleet to the already existing monthly energy usage of the building. 

The problem is the following: 
The required energy for charging the electric fleet that I have is of a time step of a quarter of an hour while the energy usages of the building is per month. When I fill in the monthly energy usage of the building in the "monthly load summary" in SAM and afterwards want to adjust the values in "Energy usage" in SAM by adding the charging energy in kW per quarter of an hour, I get an error.

I do not now what I am doing wrong. Could you please help me? 

Thanks in advance.

Kind Regards,

MichielG

Hi Michiel,

I would recommend constructing the load data vector outside of SAM and then importing it as described in the following video:



Best regards,
Paul.

Hi Paul,

Thank you very much, this was very helpful!

Kind regards,
Michiel