Capacity Factor Value

  • Michal Lisowyj
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02 Oct 2019 20:29 #7690 by Michal Lisowyj
Capacity Factor Value was created by Michal Lisowyj
When looking at the "Summary" page after running a simulation, what is the behind the scenes definition of the "Capacity Value" that is displayed in the Metric/Value table.  For clarification, when I run a P50/P90 analysis I get several statistical values for capacity value, which is perfect, but I want to know what that basic value correlates to as well as it does not match any of the other statistical values.

Thanks!

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  • Paul Gilman
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03 Oct 2019 20:06 #7693 by Paul Gilman
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Hi Michal,

You can find a description of SAM's metrics in the Help system, under "Performance Metrics" and "Financial Metrics" in the table of contents.

Please see this post for a discussion of the capacity factor:

sam.nrel.gov/forum/forum-general/1264-sam-capacity-factor.html#3902

Best regards,
Paul.

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