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Hello SAM User Group members, Please use the SAM Support forum on the SAM website to post questions

I sent the file to the email address sam.s...@nrel.gov Marco On 28 Nov, 19:18, Paul Gilman <

Dear Kumar, You can add a turbine to the library using the library editor. To do so, on the File menu

Dear Shakir, SAM models the components in a parabolic trough and wind system, so you should be able

Hello, To model one of the concentrating solar power (CSP) systems with no storage, on the Thermal

In order to account for the 50% Bonus Depreciation that takes effect next year in SAM, what should

Dear SAM User Group members, As you may have seen in the announcement of the release of the SAM Beta

You should also note that there are multiple module databases within SAM (one associated with the

Well i reply my second question, irradiance also has an influence in efficiency, so should be taken

Thanks for the quick response Paul. The "SAM/CEC Modules/" was the part I was missing. I

I would like to find regional average residential load profiles. Does anybody know if these exist and

Dear Vanessa, The current version of SAM does not model solar water heating systems with an auxiliary

Dear Paul: thanks for your reply. The LCOE metric in SAM is a measure of the total cost of the system

Hello, For the leveraged partnership flip financing option, SAM calculates the debt fraction as a

First of all sorry, I meant "I get lower energy outputs for the PV plant as the temperature

Hi I am trying to compare CSP and PV technologies, for the same peak power. (as utility) the

Dear Nawwar Ibrahim Ahmad, The current version of SAM only models photovoltaic modules (flat plate

Hi Jeremy, It's not clear from your message what kind of system you are modeling. In general, for

Hi Eli, SAM does not model hybrid power systems or off-grid systems. You may be aware of other these

Hi JP, One way to investigate the effect of temperature on the PV models would be to compare the

Dear Paul thanks a lot for your help I created a new file and I don´t have anymore that issue

Dear Nurul, Could you explain in more detail what you mean by "massive values for efficiency?

Hello Tim, There seems to be a problem with the link to the OpenEI database. We are looking into this

Hi Amit, The current version of SAM does not estimate GHG emissions reductions directly because it

Hi Tim, We are developing a set of report templates for the new report generator. The generator will

We offer these epw files for this site and elsewhere. They are $75 apiece. Please let me know if you

Hello, SAM's financial model calculates annual cash flows, so the only data available on the cash

Hello Rahul, The Land cost (along with all of the other costs in the both the direct and indirect

Please delete; I figured it out. Dustin On Aug 1, 2:15 pm, Dustin <scheuffele.dus...@gmail.com>

Paul, Thanks for the prompt response. According to the literature in the SAM help: "Global