Monthly CSP Plant Production

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Francisco
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08 Mar 2021 14:24 #9354 by Francisco

Monthly CSP Plant Production was created by Francisco

Hello to the whole community.
I have generated the code for a CSP plant, Tower (salt), single owner and I can run the code well in Python. But I can only see the annual production and I would like to know if it is possible to see the monthly production.
I have tried using something like:

monthly_energy = ssc.data_get_array (data, b'monthly_energy ');
print ('Monthly energy (year 1) =', monthly_energy)

But I have no results.
My last question is, can I mix the code generated by SAM (ssc) with some pysam commands?
Maybe it's a very basic question, but I'm new to this.
Thanks in advance for your reply,
Francisco

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Paul Gilman

08 Mar 2021 21:28 #9356 by Paul Gilman

Replied by Paul Gilman on topic Monthly CSP Plant Production

Hi Francisco,

The tcsmolten_salt module does not calculate monthly or annual energy values. You can write your own code in Python to calculate those values from the time series power generation output, which for most SAM modules is named 'gen'. You can find documentation of the modules inputs and outputs in the PySAM documentation. The results are in the "outputs" group:

nrel-pysam.readthedocs.io/en/master/modules/TcsmoltenSalt.html

Best regards,
Paul.

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