Planning Reserve Margin

See also: Analysis View, Transformation Analysis, Peak Load Ratio

The planning reserve margin is used by LEAP to decide when to automatically add additional endogenous capacity. LEAP will add enough additional capacity to maintain the planning reserve margin on or above the value you have set.

Planning reserve margin is defined as follows:

Planning Reserve Margin (%) = 100 * (Module Capacity - Peak Load) / Peak Load

Module Capacity = Sum(Capacity * Capacity Value) for all processes in the module.

Peak load is calculated based on the requirements for electricity and the module load factor (which may itself be based on the shape of a module load curve). Electricity requirements are calculated based on your energy demand analysis and any upstream electricity losses (for example in a Transmission and Distribution module).