I did a deep dive into the battery’s merchant plant code this morning and yes, the battery does not dispatch because the cleared capacity is zero:
The line in the for loop there is estimating the revenue as (cleared capacity) * (revenue / MWh) – so since all of the cleared capacity is zero all of the revenue is zero. This strikes me as a units error even if the value was non-zero, since this is being put into a $/kWh variable once this function returns to cmod_battery:
One possible solution would be to correct the units in common.cpp by just looking at mp_energy_market_revenue_mat.at(j, 1) and then deal with cleared capacity once we handle NatLabRockies/SAM#181 I’d be happy to file the pricing fix as a GitHub issue.
I did a deep dive into the battery’s merchant plant code this morning and yes, the battery does not dispatch because the cleared capacity is zero:
The line in the for loop there is estimating the revenue as (cleared capacity) * (revenue / MWh) – so since all of the cleared capacity is zero all of the revenue is zero. This strikes me as a units error even if the value was non-zero, since this is being put into a $/kWh variable once this function returns to cmod_battery:
One possible solution would be to correct the units in common.cpp by just looking at mp_energy_market_revenue_mat.at(j, 1) and then deal with cleared capacity once we handle NatLabRockies/SAM#181 I’d be happy to file the pricing fix as a GitHub issue.