CSP-Plant Modeling Guidelines and Compliance of the System Advisor Model (SAM)

Craig Turchi; Devon Kesseli; Michael Wagner; Rafael Guedez

doi:10.1063/1.5117676

CSP-Plant Modeling Guidelines and Compliance of the System Advisor Model (SAM)

Craig Turchi, Devon Kesseli, Michael Wagner, Rafael Guedez

Building Technologies and Science Center

Royal Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Accurately modeling risks, costs, and electricity output is essential to the financing and advancement of concentrating solar power projects. To address this need, a group of CSP experts created a guideline document, titled SolarPACES Guideline for Bankable STE Yield Assessment [1]. To make this information more accessible and allow stakeholders to test specific models against the recommendations, the guidelines have been condensed into a spreadsheet-based checklist. The checklist was applied to NREL's System Advisor Model (SAM) software, providing useful feedback to both the checklist group and the SAM development team. This study showed strong agreement between SAM and the guidelines, demonstrated the use of the guidelines in model validation, and resulted in several recommended improvements to SAM.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117676 https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117676
State	Published - 25 Jul 2019
Event	24th SolarPACES International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2018 - Casablanca, Morocco Duration: 2 Oct 2018 → 5 Oct 2018

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Conference	24th SolarPACES International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2018
Country/Territory	Morocco
City	Casablanca
Period	2/10/18 → 5/10/18

Bibliographical note

See NREL/CP-5500-72183 for preprint

NREL Publication Number

NREL/CP-5500-74705

Keywords

concentrating solar sower
CSP
SAM
STE
System Advisor Model

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Turchi, C , Kesseli, D , Wagner, M & Guedez, R 2019, 'CSP-Plant Modeling Guidelines and Compliance of the System Advisor Model (SAM)', Paper presented at 24th SolarPACES International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2018, Casablanca, Morocco, 2/10/18 - 5/10/18. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117676, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5117676

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CSP-Plant Modeling Guidelines and Compliance of the System Advisor Model (SAM)

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