Calculating System Efficiency for Trough and Tower Systems

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03 Dec 2012 21:55 #312 by Paul Gilman
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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.

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Paul.

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