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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$elopment team
Downloading SA% and getting help
"loc# diagram
2
This presentation is intended as an introductory presentation and can
be viewed before viewing either the photovoltaic or concentrating solar power presentations.
Note that each of the following slides is annotated with presenter
notes..
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Background
De$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
*National Renewable Energy Laboratory Innovation for Our Energy Future
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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$ity analysis %ultiple simulations
SAM
*ourly
)imulationFinancial Mo+el
)ensitivityAnalysis
,2
0RNSJS is de$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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#&ank you/
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