all hourly data - but an error

I believe that all the data that I entered/uploaded is hourly: 1) hourly TMY data - for calculating PV output, 2) hourly site load data - which I entered, 3) hourly net billing sell prices - which I enter, 4) hourly purchase rate data, which I selected from the database. Pretty sure everything is 8760 data points.  But I am not a regular user of SAM and may be missing something obvious.

However, when trying to run a simulation, I get this error: "exec fail(utilityrate5): number of sell rate records (1) must be equal to number of gen records (8760) or 8760 for each yearSimulation utilityrate5 failed :exec fail(utilityrate5): number of sell rate records (1) must be equal to number of gen records (8760) or 8760 for each year"

What do you recommend?

Thank you!

Niels

Paul

Think I updated my mac operating system since the last time I opened SAM.  It disappeared again... and I think all my files did too.  I found the program searching for a .dmg file. But I can not find the files searching for .sam files. Only older runs show up. 

Now SAM shows as a "removable volume" as if it's connected to one of my USD ports!

Is there some fix that allows me to use SAM on my MAC without it constantly disappearing.  I just searched your user guide and site for this and the web and couldn't find a solution.

Frustrating.

but thank you!!

Niels

Paul,

First, thank you for your help.  I spent the day re-doing SAM... now I have the SAM program operating as it should and know where the .sam files are saved.

See attached for the sam file you requested a few days ago.

Note that sales are based on hourly LMPs.  The site has a generation so the load shows power going to the grid, even before adding PV.

I am pretty sure everything is hourly... so I am not sure why I am getting this error message. See the error message attached.

I thought I replied but I am not seeing it, here on the SAM website.

See attached for a run with the previously mentioned error message.

Thanks so much!!!

Niels