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Under the “Wind Farm Costs” tab in the Single Turbine Cost box, change the cost by
capacity to 1500 $/kW. This eld is circled in the Figure 3.44. Leave the other elds at their
default values as shown.
The settings in the “Energy Payment Dispatch” and “User Variables” tabs were not
used in this solution and are left unchanged. The wind farm model has now been modi-
ed to t the assumptions in the problem statement. To run the simulation, select the
icon with the green arrow at the bottom left corner of the screen. SAM will output a
graph displaying different measu ...