Luca Antognini

Dear Chen, We are currently investigating how to adapt our model to such technologies. It will take some times, as we want our modification to be backed-up by high quality experimental data and be applicable to the whole of our PV module database. We will present an update of our research at the upcoming EU-PVSEC.

Hello, Thank you for reporting those behaviors. I believe there are several issues, which I will report for future correction, but my interpretation is different: - There are indeed a unit problem with the apparent and reactive energy, which will be corrected in future version. In the report, the switching to Mega watt hour instead of kilo watt hour doesn't work well for those quantity. The numerical value displayed is correct by the "k" in the unit doesn't switch yet to and "M". You can change the unit of the report for a consistent display in "kWh" by going to "Report > Report Options > Final Report Options > Energy Units > kWh". - The name of reactive and apparent energy are correctly displayed in the report. Though it seems to me that you didn't allow "solar injection into the grid" in the "self-consumption" window. Therefore, no active energy is transferred to the grid from the solar production and reactive and apparent energy are equal: Note here that the reactive component is computed based on the solar energy available at the inverter's output, as E_Reac = E_InvOut * Tan(phi). Then the apparent energy is E_app = sqrt (E_Reac*E_Reac + E_Act*E_Act) Let me know if this makes sense for you. As I see that you are trying to simulate a scenario with a large consumption, you were maybe looking for a different behavior of the reactive energy. Luca

Hi! The variable in the hourly energy variables are sometimes displayed with units "kW" instead of "kWh". This is indeed a bit confusing but for time step of one hour this is equivalent. The case of the apparent and reactive energy units should be unified with the rest in the future. In particular the reactive energy should be displayed by convention in kVARh instead of kVAh (even though they are all pseudo-units, equivalent to kW in the end).