ERIN network schematic showing a simple PV array with battery, courtesy of Big Ladder Software
Key Features
Major features include capabilities to:Account for both reliability and resilience
The tool accounts for routine failures of working components based on a statistical representativeion of reliability such as a Weibull distribution.
Accounts for toplogogy
A network includes the ideas of topology (i.e., “what is connected to what”). It also implies the notion of reachability and what is “on” (or “in”) the network and what is not.
Accounts for the interaction between energy networks
The tool is able to account for multiple interacting energy flows such as electrical power, domestic hot and cold water networks, fuel flows, and the like.
Provides key energy usage, resilience, and reliability metrics
The tool provides energy usage as well as several unique resilience metrics such as maximum contiguous downtime, energy availability, and energy robustness.
