Battery Life Consideration in Economic Analysis

[Bhushan]

Dear Sir,

It is observed that PVsyst's economic analysis doesn't account for battery life. Since every battery has to be replaced after its lifetime (let say 5 years), so in the life cycle analysis of project (let say for 20 years of life), we need to consider the replacement cost of battery (in this case, battery has to be replaced after every 5 years i.e. 3 times). In next version of PVsyst, please consider to add this feature with salvage value of battery also.

Sincerely,

Bhushan Kamble,

Student,

IIT Bombay.

[André Mermoud]

In the Economic evaluation of stand-alone systems, you have a button "Running costs".

In this dialog, you have an item "Provision for Battery replacement", and the information of the battery lifdetime, according to the effective use in your simulation.