Market Max Purchases

Units:	~
Mode:	Input Only
Multi-band:	False
Default Value:	1E+30
Validation Rule:	Any Value
Key Property:	No
Description:	Maximum purchase from the market
Detail:

Market Max Purchases sets an upper bound on the amount bought from the market at the given Price in any interval. If you prefer to set a fixed supply from the market use the Supply property instead.

Note that when a supply curve is defined using Price and Quantity there is a natural upper bound on the purchases set by the Base Quantity less then lowest quantity point.

Table 1: Max Purchases Example
Property	Value	Units	Timeslice
Price	60	-
Max Purchases	200	-	HLH
Max Purchases	0	-	LLH
Max Sales	0	-
Buy Block Day	25	-

The example in Table 1 is a a daily exercisable buy option. Purchases are made in 25 MW blocks up to 200 MW at a price of $60/MWh. The blocks are taken over the "HLH" timeslice e.g. peak periods.