See user issue with automated dispatch here: https://sam.nrel.gov/forum/forum-general/2962-battery-automated-dispatch-version-2020-2-29.html?start=6#10536

The issue is that dispatch only discharges at the time of the max price, so the manual dispatch is able to discharge at a larger number of profitable hours when compared to automated dispatch

Try to improve the automated dispatch either by implementing a threshold relative to the max price, or by computing the most profitable number of hours similar to price signals dispatch. Benchmark both the runtime vs the current algorithm, and performance vs the optimal dispatch in HOPP.