Introduction
On Tensor Cloud you can run long-term techno-economic simulations of solar PV installations and battery storage that cover the whole asset lifecycle, from initial investment to decommissioning.
Tensor Cloud holds a digital twin of your asset, of its physical environment, and of the electricity markets. It applies the financial and macroeconomic assumptions you provide about the future and runs the simulation at 30-minute resolution.
The simulation runs in several steps. Future weather is an input to price generation, the asset simulation, and the curtailment model.
The pages below describe the methodology of each component.
Physical environment
- Weather: Generation of future weather from past data for each location
- Curtailment: Simulation of curtailment events for each asset
Markets
- Market prices: Price forward curve generation
- FIP prices: Calculation of future feed-in premium prices
- Financial performance: Simulation of market trading, PPA settlements, and CAPEX/OPEX payments
Assets
- Solar PV: Simulation of the expected electricity generation from the solar PV system
- Exceedance scenarios: P85, P90, and P99 generation levels derived from the P50 simulation
- Battery storage: Simulation of charge and discharge behavior of a co-located battery system
- Battery coupling: How AC-coupled and DC-coupled batteries differ in the simulation