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NREL is a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy operated by the Alliance for Sustainable Energy LL!

Solar Advisor ModelGeneral Introduction


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Contents

"ac#ground and usersDe$elopment team

Downloading SA% and getting help

"loc# diagram

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This presentation is intended as an introductory presentation and can

be viewed before viewing either the photovoltaic or concentrating solar power presentations.

Note that each of the following slides is annotated with presenter

notes..

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future


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Background

De$eloped by the Department of Energy NationalRenewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National

Laboratories

&ision

' !ombine (& !S( thermal solar technologies into a singlemodel

' %a#e high)*uality performance models de$eloped by NREL

Sandia and other partners a$ailable to a wider audience

' +acilitate comparison by handling performance costs and

financing consistently across technologies ' +acilitate calculating the impact of R,D on L!OE N(& etc.

in $arious mar#ets.

' Sensiti$ity analysis and graphing capabilities

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Version History

(re)release Solar America -nitiati$e SA-/ &ersion

' Used by DOE labs and SA- 0echnology (athway (artnership applicants

&ersion 1.1 August 2334

' +irst release models (& !S( and !S( parabolic trough systems

&ersion 1.5.3.6 October 2334

' Read E(7 weather files October 2334

&ersion 2.3.3.2 8une 2339

' New empirical in$erter model from Sandia ' New (& model from !alifornia Energy !ommission

' Add :generic; fossil)fuel system

&ersion 2.ation of utility financing parameters

+uture $ersions

Each version also includes

feature improvements andbug fixes based on user

feedback.

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' Solar water heating

' !S( central recei$er

' (& loads and storage

' (&7atts model integration

' -nterface to Na$igant !onsulting cost model



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Users

O$er 5333 copies downloaded by ' %anufacturers

' Engineering !onsulting and R,D firms

' Utilities

' De$elopers ' &enture !apital +irms

E?amples of applications

' -n New 8ersey promoted as standard analytical tool for the

state@s clean energy program

' +ederal Energy %anagement (rogram +easibility studies

' (owerLight !ompare with internal financial models

' Ari>ona (ublic Ser$ice &erify energy production estimates

' Uni$ersity graduate research pro=ects

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Current evelo!"ent #ea"

%anagement

' Nate "lair NREL

(rogramming

' Aron Dobos NREL

' Ste$en 8an>ou NRELB

(& %odel &alidation

' !hris !ameron Sandia

(hoto$oltaics

' "ol#o $on Roedern

NREL

!oncentrating Solar

(ower

' %ar# %ehos NREL

' !raig 0urchi NREL

7ater Ceating

' 8ay "urch NREL

' !raig !hristensen NREL

Documentation and User

Support

' (aul ilman NRELB

!ontact SolarAd$isorSupportFnrel.go$

B !ontractors

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%t&er Contri'utors

(hoto$oltaics

' Sandia Laboratories

G De$elopment of Sandia (& Array (erformance %odel and (erformance

%odel for rid)!onnected (& -n$erters Da$id Hing et. al./

G (arameter data for Sandia (& and in$erter models

' Uni$ersity of 7isconsin

G De$elopment of !E! (erformance %odel +i$e)parameter module

model/

' !alifornia Energy !ommission !E!/

G (arameter data for !E! (erformance %odel

!oncentrating Solar (ower

' NREL

G (arabolic trough model Can# (rice et. al./

' Uni$ersity of 7isconsin

G Dish)Stirling model de$eloped with funding from NREL

+inancial modeling

' Lawrence "er#eley National laboratory &alidation

' Na$igant !onsulting (& cost model planned/(



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o)nloading SAM

httpIIwww.nrel.go$IanalysisIsam

1/ Sign in 2/ !omplete registration form 5/ Download

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Getting Hel!

Online Celp and User uide

' Celp menu and buttons

SA% 7ebsite

' httpIIwww.nrel.go$IanalysisIsamoogle roups

' httpIIgroups.google.comIgroupIsam)user)group

Email User Support

' SolarAd$isorSupportFnrel.go$

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Results

Inputs

SAM

Component

Parameters

FinancialAssumptions

FinancialMetrics LCOE!

IRR! NP"!Paybac#! etc$

%eat&er 'ata

Costs

Block iagra"

Incentives

(tility Rate)tructure

*ourly

)imulationFinancial Mo+el

)ensitivityAnalysis

'etail

*ourly EnergyFlows! Cas& Flow

PerformanceMetrics

Capacity Factor!Annual Output

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Inputs

Component

Parameters

FinancialAssumptions

%eat&er 'ata

Costs

In!ut ata Sources

"uilt)in data sets for

' 7eather data

' Utility rate structure

' !omponent parameters

Sample default $alues for

' System parameters

' +inancial assumptions

' -ncenti$es

' !osts

Additional data on the 7eb for ' 7eather data 0%J2 E(7 format/

Incentives

(tility Rate)tructure

-nput $ariables can be lin#ed to E?cel spreadsheets

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SAM

(rocesses input data to calculate hourly

output and cash flow

0RNSJS simulation engine

' Uses component models de$eloped by

the SA% team

Sensiti$ity analysis %ultiple simulations

SAM

*ourly

)imulationFinancial Mo+el

)ensitivityAnalysis

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0RNSJS is de$eloped and maintained by the Solar Energy

Laboratory of the Uni$ersity of 7isconsin at %adison.

httpIIsel.me.wisc.eduItrnsysI



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.esults

Summary table

raphs

' :Standard; graphs are built in

' :!ustom; graphs can be created

Sliders

raphical data $iewer

Spreadsheet

' !ash flow detail ' Courly data

' -nputs

0able and graph data can be e?ported to E?cel

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Results

FinancialMetrics LCOE!

IRR! NP"!Paybac#! etc$

'etail

*ourly EnergyFlows! Cas& Flow

PerformanceMetrics

Capacity Factor!Annual Output



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