Hydro

Hydro resources add energy budgets to resource dispatch: these energy budgets can be defined on a daily, monthly, or annual basis. Unlike storage resources, which β€œcharge” from the grid, hydro resources are intended to be used with user-defined energy budgets.

Where do the data inputs go?

  1. Resource Attributes will be specified in the UI

  2. Custom attributes below can be specified as a timeseries, placed in data > profiles

    • Pmin Rating

    • Pmax Rating

    • Max Charging Rating (CSV file)

    • Daily Energy Budget

    • Annual Energy Budget

What are ELRs?

In Recap, HydroResources are considered energy-limited resources, a special class of resources in Recap that has two types of dispatch: Heuristic or Optimized dispatch.

what is heuristic dispatch?

what is optmized dispatch?