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HOMER Front simplifies the task of designing front of the meter utility scale solar and storage systems and evaluating its profitability. HOMER's optimization and sensitivity analysis algorithms allow you to evaluate the economic and technical feasibility of a number of technology options and to account for variations in technology costs and energy resource availability. Working effectively with HOMER Front requires understanding its three core capabilities; simulation, optimization, and sensitivity analysis; and how they interact.

 

Simulation, Optimization, and Sensitivity Analysis

Simulation: At its core, HOMER Front is a simulation model. It attempts to simulate a viable system for all possible combinations of the equipment you want to consider. Depending on how you set up your model, HOMER Front may simulate hundreds or even thousands of systems.

 

Optimization: The optimization step follows all simulations. The simulated systems are sorted and filtered according to criteria that you define, so you can see the best possible solutions..

 

Sensitivity Analysis: This is an optional step that allows you to model the impact of variables that are beyond your control, such as costs and energy market pricing, and see how the optimal system changes with these variations.

 

HOMER Front models only renewable energy technologies.

Power sources in HOMER Front

Solar photovoltaic (PV)

Wind

 

Storage in HOMER Front

Energy Storage Systems

 

 

 

Applications

Energy Markets

Capacity Markets

Time of Delivery Contracts

 

See also

Selected Overview

Optimization Results

Sensitivity Results

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