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Electric heater for CSP Tower Molten Salt

  • Martin
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07 May 2026 11:08 #14539 by Martin
Hello everyone,

I'm trying to evaluate a csp tower salt model (Single Owner) with an sCO2 cycle with electric heaters in SAM 2024 but it seems the optimization model will never use the electric heatert. I tried changing the inputs in both the Electric HTF Heater and in the Dispatch Optimization section but I can't figure it out. Is there another section (Maybe one of the economic ones)  that I should be aware?

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  • Paul Gilman
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08 May 2026 10:33 #14542 by Paul Gilman
Replied by Paul Gilman on topic Electric heater for CSP Tower Molten Salt
Hi Martin,

Be sure to check Enable electric heater to charge cold HTF on the System Design page.

See the Help topic for the Electric HTF Heater page for more details:

 

Best regards,
Paul.

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