The Configure Simulations page allows you to set up simulations for a range of analyses options.
To view the Configuring Simulations page:
| • | Click the Configure Simulations button located under the navigation menu. |
The available analysis options are:
| • | Parametrics: Assign multiple values to one or more input variables. Allows you to compare systems with different component sizes, locations, and financing assumptions, and to plot graphs of output metrics over a range of input variable values. |
| • | Sensitivity: Examine how variation in one or more inputs affects the value of an output metric by assigning a range of variation to one or more input variables. Results are displayed in tornado graphs. |
| • | Optimization: Find the value of one or more input variables that maximizes or minimizes an output metric. |
| • | Statistical: Explore uncertainties in the inputs. Allows you to define a distribution for one or more input variables and runs multiple simulations using input values randomly picked according to the distribution. |
| • | Multiple Systems: Model a system as a combination of subsystems. For example, model a photovoltaic system that consists of arrays with different orientations. |
| • | Excel Exchange: Use Excel to store or calculate input variable values. |
