How to import data on SAM
How to make your location on SAM
The System Advisor Model (SAM) is a free techno-economic software model that facilitates decision-making for people in the renewable energy industry:
- Project managers and engineers
- Policy analysts
- Technology developers
- Researchers
IF you are not in the USA and you want to work on SAM you have to download a weather file of your city, in order to do that follow this guide:
First method
go to PHOTOVOLTAIC GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM
- with the cursor choose your location.
- the best format to use with SAM is the typical-year (TMY) in the EPW format.
- make the file in a folder .
Step 2
go to the program on the top left; location and Resource click on the button Add/remove weather file folders
Second method
#Step 1
go to http://climate.onebuilding.org/WMO_Region_1_Africa/DZA_Algeria/index.html
#Step 2
choose the location
you can see the format of the file you download is the typical-year (TMY)
Click on the button Add/remove weather file folders
Click the button refresh library
