Hi Paul,
Another doubt about this item:
I am trying to simulate a standalone battery setting 0% nominal capacity factor of a generic power plant (it also could be done setting a 100% plant loss as you indicated in the past round table). In this way, I am providing a time series prices for energy market under Merchant Plan model and I would like SAM to get when the battery should charge from the grid and discharge to the grid in order to maximize revenues. For this issue, I thought that if I set the storage dispatch controller of Battery Dispatch menu to "Automated" I could let SAM optimize when the battery should charge from the grid and when to discharge (see figure 1 attached bellow).
However, it seems that SAM continue to ask for the cleared capacity to set in each time step of the energy market revenue table (see figure 2 attached), as if the user was the one who has to decide how to operate the baterry in each time step. It seems confused, becuase I expected that under the "Automated storage dispatch controller option" SAM would be able to decide itself when the battery should charge from the grid and when to discharge in order to maximize revenues in the energy market.
Is it not possible to let SAM optimize the baterry operation to avoid the user has to decide the operation mode?
Thanks in advance
Figure 1
Figure 2