About PV, Wind and Batteries

Hi Aldo,

For the Combine Cases macro, the financial model for generic system case that represents the combined systems is the one that determines the project NPV and other financial metrics. The electricity rate, load, financial parameters, incentives and other financial model inputs for the other cases representing the subsystems are not used for the combined system.

Best regards,
Paul.

Hi Paul.

I'm about to finish my thesis, I'm in the conclusions part, and I need to understand the performance and financial metrics well. Would you be so kind as to explain them to me? For example, I don't quite understand the capacity factor, nor the energy yield, and so on with various performance metrics. What are the values that need to be achieved for each metric? For financial metrics, I think the only thing I don't quite understand is the LCOE.

Best regards.

Hi Aldo,

Please see the "Financial Metrics" and "Performance Metrics" chapters of SAM's Help system for descriptions of the metrics. You can press the F1 key from SAM to open the Help system, or download a PDF version from the SAM website Download page: sam.nrel.gov/download.html .

Best regards,
Paul.