Accounging for BESS pricing in ReOpt when vendor offers a $/kWh only.

[gerald-robinson]

Hello all. I wanted to utilize the ReOpt model for PV+BESS which requires the use of $/kW and $/kWh. I was given a price from a bidder that is $7.50/rated kWh/Month (billing period). Has anyone developed a means to translate this kind of pricing to the ReOpt format?

[adfarth]

one idea could be to use this monthly per kWh cost along with the contract period to determine the total per kWh cost. Enter this cost into REopt in the per kWh field, set the per kW cost to 0, and fix the battery duration (hours) to the hours specified by the bidder