MT Schedule New Entry Driver

Units:	-
Default Value:	0
Validation Rule:	In (0,1,2,3)
Description:	New entry driver.
Detail:

MT Schedule New Entry Driver controls the automatic capacity expansion algorithm described in the MT Schedule topic.

This setting can take the following values:

None (value = 0)

No automated capacity expansion will be performed. Discrete capacity expansion will still occur based on user-defined changes in the Generator Units property.

Reliability Only (value = 1)

Sufficient capacity will be added to maintain capacity reserves at or above the Region Min Capacity Reserves or Min Capacity Reserve Margin.

Reliability and/or Entrepreneurial (value = 2)

Minimum capacity reserves will be met, but other expansion may be made if profitable.

Entrepreneurial Only (value = 3)

Expansion will occur only if profitable. Capacity reserve requirements are ignored.

See also:

• MT Schedule New Entry Time Lag
• MT Schedule New Entry Capacity Mechanism