Dynamic Peak Credit Hours Column
Column Type = Integer
This optional column is used to determine how many hours are averaged together each year for purposes of the dynamic peak credit calculation. The dynamic peak credit logic permits a renewable resource’s contribution to the reserve margin to dynamically change based on the current level of renewable penetration. By default, this is done by looking at the single peak net load hour for a given year along with the renewable unit’s output and capacity in that hour. This column offers more flexibility by using any number of user-specified peak hours over which the average output/capacity will determine the peak credit, which can provide a more stable peak credit determination and offer better convergence in high renewable penetration long-term studies.
Turn on informational level 1 messaging to get a list in the output that tells which hours were chosen for each year, iteration and zone/pool.
Dynamic Peak Credit Hours Column