Calculating System Efficiency for Trough and Tower Systems

SAM does not report an annual average solar field efficiency or annual solar-to-electric efficiency value, so I cannot confirm that your equations are correct from SAM's perspective.

The spreadsheet that attached to an earlier reply to this thread should help you choose the SAM output variables to use for your calculations.

Best regards,
Paul.

Hi Paul,
I can't download the spreadsheet that attached to an earlier reply to this thread. It says:

The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.

Can you please post it again?

Hi Sahil,

That is a very old post, but I think this may be the spreadsheet referenced above:



Best regards,
Paul.