Night consumption

Inverter standby consumption at night

Inputs used: Night loss, Inverter night consumption

What it is

An inverter draws a small standby power while it is not producing. This step decides whether that draw is counted on the night and no-start timesteps.

Options

On: the standby draw is counted on every timestep without production
Off: no standby draw

References

King, Gonzalez, Galbraith & Boyson 2007, Performance Model for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Inverters, Sandia report SAND2007-5036

API

ac_losses.inverter_night_tare = true | false