The Solar Advisor Model (SAM) combines a detailed performance model with several types of financing (from residential to utility-scale) for most solar technologies.
In 2004, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in conjunction with Sandia National Laboratory and in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Program (SETP), developed SAM. The model continues to be updated.
The solar technologies currently represented in SAM include concentrating solar power (CSP) parabolic trough, dish-Stirling, and power tower systems, as well as flat plate and concentrating photovoltaic technologies. SAM incorporates the best available models to allow analysis of the impact of changes to the physical system on the overall economics (including the levelized cost of energy). SAM development continues to add additional financing models and performance models to meet the needs of a growing community of users.
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