How to import data on SAM

Here is what we’ll cover in this article :

What is SAM?

The System Advisor Model (SAM) is an open source (free) software model that facilitates decision-making for people in the renewable energy industry:

Project managers and engineers
Policy analysts
Technology developers
Researchers

SAM can model diffrentes types of renewable energy systems:

Photovoltaic systems( from small residential rooftop to large utility-scale systems).
Battery storage with Lithium ion, lead acid, or flow batteries for front-of-meter or behind-the-meter applications
Concentrating Solar Power systems for electric power generation, including parabolic trough, power tower, and linear Fresnel
Industrial process heat from parabolic trough and linear Fresnel systems
Wind power, from individual turbines to large wind farms
Marine energy wave and tidal systems
Solar water heating
Fuel cells
Geothermal power generation
Biomass combustion for power generation
High concentration photovoltaic systems.

How to make your location on SAM

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:

1.First Method

#Step 1

Visit the link –> 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.

2.Second Method

#Step 1

Go to —-> http://climate.onebuilding.org/WMO_Region_1_Africa/DZA_Algeria/index.html

#Step 2

Now youhave to select your location and click o like in the below screen :

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.

Modeling wind turbines on Sam

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