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Installation

  • Installation instructions

Running Hercules

  • Running Hercules
  • Order of Operations

Key Concepts

  • Key Concepts
  • Units Convention in Hercules
  • Timing
  • H_Dict Structure
  • Hybrid Plant Components
  • Component Names, Types, and Categories
  • Adding a New Component
  • HerculesModel
  • Output Files

Plant Components

  • Wind Farm Components
  • Power Playback
  • Solar PV
  • Battery
  • Electrolyzer Plant
  • Thermal Component Base
  • Open Cycle Gas Turbine
  • Hard Coal Steam Turbine
  • Thermal Plant

Inputs

  • Hercules Input Files
  • Grid Status Data Download
  • Solar and Wind Resource Downloading and Upsampling

Examples

  • Examples Overview
  • Example 00: Wind only
  • Example 00c: Power Playback
  • Example 01: Wind Only: 1-DOF model
  • Example 02a: Wind Farm Realistic Inflow
  • Example 02b: Wind Farm Realistic Inflow (Precomputed FLORIS)
  • Example 02c: Wind Farm Realistic Inflow (Direct - No Wake Modeling)
  • Example 03: Wind and solar hybrid plant
  • Example 04: Wind and storage hybrid plant
  • Example 05: Wind and storage with LMP-based control
  • Example 06: Wind and hydrogen hybrid plant
  • Example 07: Open Cycle Gas Turbine (OCGT)
  • Example 09: Multi-unit Thermal Plant
  • Repository
  • Open issue

Index

By National Laboratory of the Rockies

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