SYSPLAN: Model documentation and users' guide

Technical Report · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6661696· OSTI ID:6661696

Hostick, C J; Hutchinson, R A; Winter, C

This report describes software designed to evaluate capital investment in customer-side-of-the-meter load leveling battery systems. The microcomputer-based software was developed at the Pacific Northwest Laboratory (PNL), which is operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Load leveling battery systems reduce a customer's monthly electrical demand charge by reducing the maximum power load supplied by the utility during the customer's peak demand. The system consists of a large array of batteries, a converter that changes AC current into DC current (or DC current into AC current), and balance-of-plant equipment and facilities required to support the battery and converter system. Using the software described in this report, the economic feasibility of load leveling systems can easily be evaluated to determine if more detailed studies are warranted. 27 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 6661696
• Report Number(s): PNL-5595; ON: DE88007355
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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