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Supply-Demand Matching


Once the demand profiles of the different scenarios have been created and the supply profiles have been obtained by means of the Sizing Procedure, it is time perform the matching: this is, superimpose both profiles and evaluate how convenient is the selected supply for a given demand.

To do so, the renewable energy matching tool, Merit [1] has been used. This tool provides a Matching Rate, as a percentage, which corresponds to the average of an hourly evaluation of the difference existing between supply and demand.

The steps followed to perform the matching process in Merit, for each of the combinations, are:


References

[1] Born, F., Clarke, J. and Johnstone, C. (2004) Development of a Simulation-Based Decision Support Tool for Renewable Energy Integration and Demand-Supply Matching.