Hourly Energy Only Accounts for 1 Axis of Dual Axis System?

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20 Mar 2019 17:04 #6713 by aaron_pvc

Hourly Energy Only Accounts for 1 Axis of Dual Axis System? was created by aaron_pvc

Currently the annual energy calculation returned from getting the number of annual_energy works fine for a dual axis system. However, the hourly energy calculation only seems to account for 1 axis as the values returned are half of what is expected of a dual axis system.

Is this intended for the hourly energy calculation or is there a way to handle dual axis systems differently? (inherited this code base and am new to PV and SAM so not sure what the appropriate outcome is for this).

Thanks,

Aaron

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Paul Gilman

21 Mar 2019 23:01 #6714 by Paul Gilman

Replied by Paul Gilman on topic Hourly Energy Only Accounts for 1 Axis of Dual Axis System?

Hi Aaron,

SAM can model photovoltaic systems with fixed, one-axis tracking, two-axis tracking, and azimuth-axis tracking arrays.

Are you running the desktop version of SAM, or using a script or program you wrote to interact with the SAM API?

Best regards,
Paul.

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