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SAND Report: SAND88-0321, April 1988
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The SOLERGY computer code is a valuable tool for the commercialization of solar central receiver power plants. SOLERGY predicts the annual energy produced by a plant and can be used in design optimization studies to evaluate alternative plant designs or operating strategies. This report
The SOLERGY computer code is a valuable tool for the commercialization of solar central receiver power plants. SOLERGY predicts the annual energy produced by a plant and can be used in design optimization studies to evaluate alternative plant designs or operating strategies. This report
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validates SOLERGY by comparing its prediction of annual energy with the actual performance of the Solar One power plant during 1985. SOLERGY reliably estimates annual energy production, provided good estimates of user-supplied parameters on the plant's operation are available. The code's predictions of plant performance on clear days agree well with the actual performance. However, the code tends to overestimate the performance on partly cloudy days because of the use of 15-minute average insolation data and its failure to account for actions taken by the plant's operators. Possible applications of the code and a discussion of the sensitivity of results to uncertainty in key input parameters are presented. Show Less