Monthly data errors for SAM

Dear Haruno,

The screenshot you posted is of the total energy produced in each month for each year of the analysis period. If you are seeing a problem with that data, please reply with a description of the problem.

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Best regards,
Paul.

The problem is according to the data the energy producing by farm is decreasing by days increasing and has strong conflict with my testing data.
And there are only 26 days data for each month on SAM, and how let it be 30 or 31 days ?

Hi Haruno,

Each row in the table represents a year, starting with Year 0. In Year 0 there is no production -- this is the year in the cash flow for the capital investment. In this case, the analysis period (defined on the Financial Parameters input page) is 25 years, so there are 26 rows in the table.

The system starts producing power in Year 1, and the table shows the production in each month by year. So in Year 1, the total production in April was 2.51 million kWh. In Year 2, the production in April was 2.50 million kWh, etc.

The production decreases from year to year because of degradation, which is defined on the Lifetime and Degradation input page.

Best regards,
Paul.