How-to guides

Getting started

• Install, then run your first valuation on the example dataset.

Your plant and your data

• Get prices from your own sources: a sources/1 file, microgrid sources and microgrid now.
• Configure a source: each provider, with a working section.
• Build a dataset from your own records, with a worked CSV example.
• Describe your plant in plant/2: PV of either coupling, a battery on its own inverter or on a hybrid's DC bus, DC-bus loads, grid limits, grid-charge and export windows, meters.
• Tune the engine: when to change an engine/2 setting.

In your own code

• Use the library from Python: Inputs, Engine.value, Engine.live, to_mapping.
• Use the prices in a scheduler: which output answers which question, and a worked decision.
• Run it continuously: record inputs, value, serve the live value.
• Write your own plant model, and check it keeps the contract.

Checking the models

• Replay and score a period: valuations at past times against what the meters recorded.
• Check a plant model against its meters.
• Read the battery's lots: where its energy came from and what it cost.
• Fit the battery's conversion from the meters.