SAM Help#

This is the user documentation for the System Advisor Model™ (SAM™) developed by the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR).

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See https://sam.nlr.gov for general information about SAM and links to technical references for SAM’s performance and financial models

Go to https://sam.nlr.gov/forum to ask questions and get help from the SAM user community and SAM developers.

See https://sam.nlr.gov/releasenotes for version information.

Download SAM for Windows, Mac, and Linux at https://sam.nlr.gov/download. You can also find links to legacy versions of SAM there.

SAM’s source code is available at NatLabRockies/SAM.

Software developer tools are available at https://sam.nlr.gov/sdk, and the PySAM Python package is available at https://pysam.readthedocs.io.

Getting Started and Reference#

Getting Started and Reference

Weather Data#

Performance Models#

Degradation#

Degradation

Grid#

Grid

Financial Models#

Results#

3D Shade Calculator#