solarEngineering Additional Issues

[dpinney]

SOLARENGINEERING REQUESTED SCENARIOS

1. Distributed 50% penetration.
2. Sunday template system: 1.4 MW DC, 1 MW AC. This is the normal ratio. Near substation.
3. Same system at EOL.

FOR ALL

• Get cancellation working.
• Do we keep the attachment boxes... or do we dump them? Remove.
• Volt chart pngs sometimes show up from cache. Fixed with.
• Layout always neato even when it doesn't need to be.
• Make crash notifications show up.
• Double climate charts; fix units.
• Rainfall. Asked jcfuller for resolution.
• Other solar vars? Moved to global horizontal.
• Update all the demos.

DEMO

• What is the test feeder? Olin Barre Housed.
• Flip the matplotlib charts over the x axis.
• Update production.
• Write out the 3 workflows for Doug using Olin Barre Housed.
• Fix import Climate.
• Fix import Housing.
• Update production.
• Test all workflows.

BONUS

• Extreme outlier colors.
• Add reg and cap changes to demo system?
• kwh -> sqft on the grid editor. Coming in gridlab 3.2.
• Remove border white space from time travel chart. Doesn't work on linux.
• Weather instead of TMY data. Add input box "Use Historical Weather" as a true/false option. Override TMY if true. Weather should be applied via the /scratch/gosedWeather/ method.
• Video?

[dpinney]

We should show current on the wires via line thickness:

[dpinney]

PNNL Enhancement Suggestions for solarEngineering that we should also do:

• Flicker--needs violation recorder. ETA on Gridlab code late summer? Needs 1 minute step. Need better solar data...
• Overloaded conductors and reverse powerflow--could do now.
• Best case/worst case days. 8 scenarios-4 seasons high vs. low.
• Display measured power factor at sub? Ask Doug about leading/lagging set point for SUNDA systems.
• Movie generation code can throw errors on prod for some feeders.
• Voltage map: add secondary system to voltage map? Change scale?

[drdanley]

For 1 minute analysis, I think you could just run representative 1 day analysis -- no need to do longer. So you only need a representative day that you can scale -- GRE has both 1 minute and 1 second for their HQ arrays. For best/worst analysis -- we found that the best chance for reverse power flow is in the "shoulder" seasons when solar is reasonably high, temperatures are cool and load is still low. For VAR control -- SUNDA does not have any recommendations for setting power factor, but I think +/- 5% of inverter capacity is a reasonable first goal.

[dpinney]

Moving to other project.