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3 years ago - Name: SAM
- Short Description: The System Advisor Model supports renewable energy techno-economic and cash flow modeling
- Description: SAM is the flagship techno-economic modeling platform for several renewable energy technologies combined with a variety of cashflow models. SAM models PV, CSP, wind, geothermal, biopower, marine energy and other technologies. SAM spans residential, commercial and utility-scale financial models. The SAM suite includes desktop tools, open source code, a software development kit and wrappers for several languages.
- Website: https://sam.nrel.gov
- License: Permissive (open-source, eg. BSD)
- Source: https://sam.nrel.gov/download.html
- Infrastructure sector: Electric, Buildings
- Modeling Paradigm: Simulation, Visualization, Engineering/Designtion
- Capabilities: SAM is a techno-economic computer model designed to facilitate decision making for people involved in the renewable energy industry: project managers and engineers, financial and policy analysts, technology developers, researchers
- Lowest Temporal Resolution: Hours
- Typical Temporal Resolution: Hours
- Highest Temporal Resolution: Minutes
- Smallest Temporal Scope: Minutes
- Typical Temporal Scope: Hours
- Largest Temporal Scope: Hours
- Lowest Spatial Resolution: Facility
- Typical Spatial Resolution: Facility
- Highest Spatial Resolution: Component
- Smallest Spatial Scope: Component
- Typical Spatial Scope: Facility
- Largest Spatial Scope: Facility
- Point of Contact: Janine.Freeman@nrel.gov
- Language: C++
- Interface: API
- Operating Systems: OSX, Windows, Linux
- Input Data Formats: Excel, text files
- Output Data Formats: Excel, text files
- Number of Publications: 10
- Documentation: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy18osti/70414.pdf
- Actively Maintained: True
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