Kevin,
Good news and bad news here.
The bad news: A proper analysis would require dynamically determining the hours to charge and discharge, which is really a multi-hour unit commitment problem, and is thus currently beyond the scope of the PAT.
The good news: If you're willing to live with two very large assumptions:
1. that you can pre-specify which hours to charge, and which hours to discharge (off and on peak, say),
2. During the charge and discharge cycles, the hourly profile must be pre-specified. For example, if the charging period is 8 hours, then the user must pre-specify the charging MW for each of the 8 hours (uniform, decaying, etc.) that add to the battery capacity.
If these two assumptions do not render the solution meaningless, then the PAT could simply apply that schedule to a large number of hours and see which buses have the largest (most positive) revenue from the LMP for each hour.
If you chose existing renewable sites (wind or solar) to be among the candidate sites, then this could possibly be a "hybrid" siting tool.
This would be a really cool calculation if you're willing to live with the above assumptions. I hope others out there will comment on this suggestion, and weigh in on the downside of the assumptions.
Rob & Steve
Rob
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